What kind of gear am I rockin’?

A popular topic of interest buzzing around the blogosphere lately (especially among the SocialSpark folks) is “What kind of gear are you packing?”

Being a full time IT professional and part time blogger, aspiring web developer, casual gamer, and wannabe photog — you better believe that I have the gear to support my technolust. My technology toy chest is constantly growing but right now I think I have everything I need to rock out with my geeky interests.

Desktop -
For my desktop PC at the home office I’m still sporting my slowly aging Dell Dimension 5150. I bought the computer with my 2005 tax return and over the years it has gotten upgrades here and there to keep up with the times. I’m thinking maybe next year sometime I will purchase or build a replacement. Riken (the desktop) currently features a 3.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor, 3GB DDR2 RAM, 80 & 160GB SATA HDDs, and an NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT (Fatal1ty edition) graphics card. For displays I have a 19″ Samsung 940BW LCD for a primary and a 17″ Dell E176FP LCD as a secondary.

Notebook -
I recently purchased a new Dell XPS M1330 notebook to cure my mobile computing needs. Up until about a month ago I used it daily at work until I switched to using a desktop. Starscream packs a hell of a punch in such a small package with it’s 1.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB SATA HDD, and NVIDIA GeForce 8400M discrete graphics card. If you want to learn more about the M1330, check out my detailed product review.

File Server -
Over the past few years I’ve gone through more file servers then anything. I had used an old spare-parts-box for a while, then my 1st generation Apple Mac Mini, then Titan Blue which is now my desktop at work and more recently I have moved onto a Linksys NSLU2 USB Storage Link (NAS) device. So far the NSLU2 has been the perfect network storage appliance for my needs. I currently have my two 500GB Western Digital drives attached to Novalis making for a terabyte of total storage. The drives are mirrored every week for redundancy, ensuring maximum reliability.

Camera -
I wouldn’t call myself a professional photographer by any means but I could be considered an enthusiast at the very least. To take high quality photos you need a decent camera and this past Christmas I received a gift that I could only dream of purchasing myself. Another gadget I still need to write up a review for is my Canon PowerShot A650 IS. This incredible Canon innovation gives you the features and flexibility of a digital SLR in a light weight point-and-shoot form factor. I just recently started getting into buying external lenses and accessories for it and I’m really looking forward to using the camera to its full potential this summer.

Other Gadgets -
Where would a geek be without his gadgets?! My best friend for day-to-day business is my Motorola MOTO Q Smartphone. The phone has all of the basic PDA functions I need, it syncs with my Outlook which is important and I’m still overall fairly pleased with the device. I also have an Apple iPod Touch that I won by being a finalist in a PayPerPost Blog Battle Royale competition (here’s the winning entry). I don’t use the iPod nearly as much as I could but it’s a neat little device, check out my embarrassing video review here.

Well there you have it, I’m sure I could come up with some other odds and ends to throw into this now massive entry but those are the things I use on a daily basis, most of them anyway.

Now it’s your turn, what kind of gear are you packing?