“How many PCs are enough? 5? 10?”

Enough? There’s no such thing! 🙂 There are two laptops, a netbook, and two desktops at our place — not counting several other devices that could technically be called computers, like the iPod Touch (a small computer itself) and the two network-attached storage systems (both special-purpose Linux computers). And then there are the several dead computer carcasses that need only one or two parts for their resurrection.

Even among the working ones, several of them are rarely used. One of the desktops is a 64-bit system that I only fire up when I need to do some debugging on the 64-bit version of Project Badger… I don’t think I’ve turned it on in more than six months. The netbook and one of the notebooks rarely see much use now either. We really only use one notebook (my main system) and one desktop (GoddessJ’s) at present. We could easily clear out a good third of the office if we had a reason to, without giving up anything we actually use.

Hm, maybe I shouldn’t publish this entry… GoddessJ might decide to order that space cleaned up. 😉

3 Comments

  1. My mere Mac mini is 64 bit (core2duo). 🙂 I also have a netbook, that’s it, unless you count my iPod touch and Nokia Internet Tablet; the latter is more of a general purpose computer than the itouch as it runs an only slightly modified Linux based on Debian (basically it uses a gtk-based system with a specialized window manager and menu system suited for a small touch-screen, though Nokia is switching to Qt in the version after next) and is capable of running regular Linux (and Android) as well if you want to give up some hardware compatibility with parts of Maemo, namely some device drivers, that are proprietary. If you want to add everything that runs Linux, you’d get a really large list. Kindles run Linux, so does my router and the internet radio in my roommate’s room. 🙂

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