Windows Workstation I have a beefy workstation at home with 24" + 22" screens that I now primarily use for resource intensive gaming that require a go

Windows Workstation I have a beefy workstation at home with 24" + 22" screens that I now primarily use for resource intensive gaming that require a good GPU, or ASM reverse engineering. The extra pixels really help keep different aspects of the ASM available for a quick reference when looking around. Linux Server & NAS Next to that workstation, I have a dual quad core Xeon PowerEdge server with Debian for serving up my side projects, and experimenting with new languages & various web, load balancing, and DB servers. The Linux server is connected to a 4TB RAID5 NAS for backups of the server, my workstation, and my media files. I also have torrentflux setup on Debian to download torrents to the NAS. All of this is connected to a 30/30 FiOS connection with a gigabit switch for the internal network so its a decent setup for production side projects and backups. Day-to-day Until last month I was using a 15" i5 MBPro with 6GB of ram, and an SSD for my day-to-day needs and development, but the weight was starting to get to me. So following the recommendations a few weeks ago in a HN thread about development laptops, I purchased a Lenovo X201 for my day-to-day needs. I dual-boot between Windows 7 (for ASM work, and other work that I need Windows for) and Ubuntu 10.10 (main OS, sysadmin work, development work). For anyone else considering a X201, do it! It's a great setup, the screen resolution is not a problem at all (coming from someone who went to a hi-res 15" MBP from a 13" for the screen resolution upgrade) and 10.10 worked flawlessly out of the box. Software On Windows, I use InType for my texteditor, combined with ExpanDrive for remote editing. On Ubuntu, I use Scribes as my primary texteditor, vim when working in command line. No need for ExpanDrive in Ubuntu as Nautilus supports SSH bookmarks. Tilda is a great utility if you need to be able to pull up a Terminal window quickly, similar to Visor in OS X. "Gnome Do" to replace Spotlight from OS X Here's a script to enable two-finger scrolling with Synaptics touchpads: https://gist.github.com/667233 https://gist.github.com/667233