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	<title>Philip Roche &#187; hardware</title>
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		<title>Sacrificing my EEEPC for a Garmin &#8211; EEEPC for sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 11:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>philroche</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[eeepc]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I've come to the crazy decision that I need to sacrifice my EEPC in favour of a Garmin Forerunner 405. Why?

I've got an awesome Vaio that I find myself using more and more at home
I'm doing the Dublin marathon this year and I'd like the Garmin to aid in my training

What I found great [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="floatright" alt="eeepc for sale" src="http://www.philroche.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/eeepc_black_left1_thumb.jpg" /> I've come to the crazy decision that I need to sacrifice <a href="http://www.philroche.net/archives/eeepc-overall-thoughts/">my EEPC</a> in favour of a <a href="https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=11039">Garmin Forerunner 405</a>. Why?</p>
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<li>I've got an awesome Vaio that I find myself using more and more at home</li>
<li>I'm doing the Dublin marathon this year and I'd like the Garmin to aid in my training</li>
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<p>What I found great about the EEPC -</p>
<ul>
<li>It's very light</li>
<li>It plays all media types - great for travelling</li>
<li>It's got Wifi</li>
<li>It's battery life is great considering it's size</li>
<li>It works great as a digital radio hooked up to a hifi</li>
</ul>
<p>I'm looking for £190 ono excluding delivery (perfect condition with original box and all manuals/cds). That includes a 2GB SD card. I'm putting it on my blog first before ebaying it. I've also got an unused <a href="http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/products/dh2go/digital/home.php">Matrox DualHead2Go Digital Edition</a> for sale (£110 ono excl delivery).</p>
<p>Anybody interested?</p>
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		<title>My Ultimate Dev Machine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>philroche</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started back at Karova I treated myself to a new and very awesome dev machine. I bought it myself so was very careful that I got best value for my money. I've been using it for three months now and I have to say I am very very very pleased with it.


Dell Precison [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I started back at Karova I treated myself to a new and very awesome dev machine. I bought it myself so was very careful that I got best value for my money. I've been using it for three months now and I have to say I am very very very pleased with it.</p>
<p><img width="172" height="240" alt="dell_conroe_med-precision390" class="floatright" src="http://www.philroche.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/dell_conroe_med-precision390_thumb.jpg" /></p>
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<li>Dell Precison 390
<ul>
<li>Core 2 Duo 1.86GHz</li>
<li>4GB Ram</li>
<li>ATI Fire GL V3400 12MB graphics card with dual DVI</li>
<li>2 x 73GB SAS 15000rpm drives</li>
<li>2 x 150GB SATA 10000rpm 16MB Cache</li>
<li>Dell SAS 5i/R raid controller</li>
<li>Intel Sata raid controller</li>
<li>Seagate 500GB eSATA and USB 2 external harddrive</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2 x Dell 2007FP monitors (I had these from before)
<ul>
<li>Active speaker soundbar</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Microsoft natural ergo 400 keyboard</li>
<li>Microsoft trackball explorer</li>
<li>Windows XP Pro (not a chance I will go near Vista for dev work)</li>
</ul>
<p>I regularly have 5 or six instances of Visual Studio (2003,2005 and 2008) running as well as Firefox, Jedit, Thunderbird, iTunes, FileZilla, SPE etc. etc. and it doesn't even bat an eyelid. I could have waited until I could afford a quad core but I can always upgrade the motherboard and processor another time. I bought the machine and monitors (not at the same time) from <a href="http://itcsales.co.uk/index.html">ITCSales</a> who have great prices and very good customer service. All in all including monitors I reckon I spent about £1400 which considering the spec is a steal.</p>
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