This is a breakdown of my next PC, built entirely from components listed on newegg.com. The quick view: Shuttle XPC SH67H3 with Intel Core i5-2405S / 16GB DDR3-1333 / 128 GB SSD / 2000GB HDD / 3D-ready BDRE.
Introduction
For the past three years, my mainstay desktop has been the Acer Aspire x1200 that I bought from Best Buy. I started with the pre-installed Microsoft Windows Vista, and went through several flavors of Linux, some months with Windows Server 2008 R2, and currently have it settled back into Vista. I had purchased an HP Mini 210 netbook back when netbooks were still under $300, and that currently lives with my mother. From a Craigslist find, I now operate a Toshiba Satellite E1405 that I absolutely love (backlit keys FTW). So I've got a three-year-old desktop, and a three-year-old laptop. I think that if I want to get serious about home-brew development or computing, I need to jump into the next generation of components, so I've put together a wishlist of sorts that I hope to fill out.
