Andrew’s Equipment
I spend many hours tinkering with Cloud environments, but what tools do I use?
Well, I don’t have very new equipment, as I believe that it’s what you do with the tools rather than the tools themselves.
Keyboard and Mouse
I have the following mouse and keyboard, one set at home, and another at work.
Aukey Mechanical Keyboard with Blue Microswitches
- Aukey Microswitch cordless mouse
Equipment for Day-to-Day Work.
Desktop PC: 27″ iMac (Late-2015)
QuadCore i7 (4.0 GHz 8MB) 8 Threads
- AMD Radeon R9 M395X with 4GB of GDDR5 memory
- 32GB RAM
- 3TB Apple Fusion Drive
- OS: Mac OS Big Sur 11.0.x
- Microsoft Office (Standard for Mac, Outlook & OneNote Removed)
- Fusion 12 Pro Virtualisation Software
- OS: Windows 10 Pro (Virtual Machine)
- Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019
- Microsoft Visio Professional 2019
- Microsoft Project Professional 2019
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Virtual Machine)
- OS: Windows 10 Pro (Virtual Machine)
- 2nd Monitor: 2011 27″ iMac is used as a second monitor in target display mode.
Laptop PC: 13″ Mac Book Pro (Early-2015)
Dual-Core i7 (3.1 GHz 4MB) 4 Threads
- Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB
- 16GB RAM
- 500GB Flash Storage
- OS: Mac OS Big Sur 11.0.x
Notes and Checklists Software:
- Apple iNotes Sync notes between MacOS and Linux Machines
- Synology Drive Client Sync (Sync Between Devices) for Windows/Mac OS X/Linux & Android/iOS
- Synology Chat (A private slack like a piece of software for Windows/Mac OS X/Linux & Android/iOS
As a DevOps & QA Person, I have two phones, one Android and another iPhone, this helps with Testing of Apps!
Phone 1: OnePlus 5 (2017)
- Android 9
- 8GB RAM
- 128GB Storage
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 OctaCore 4×2.45GHz & 4×1.9GHz processors
- Adreno 540 GPU
- SIM 1: GiffGagg (O2 Network)
- SIM 2: Vodafone
Phone 2: iPhone 8 (2017)
- iOS 14
- 3GB RAM
- 256GB Storage
- A11 Bionic Chip
- SIM: Smarty SIM (Three Network)
Storage / Personal Cloud
NAS: Synology DS1515+
- 5 x 3TB Hitachi UltraStar Drives (Synology Hybrid RAID 2)
- 16GB RAM (Internal & External SIMMs upgraded)
NAS: Buffalo LS220D – Apple Timemachine
- 2 x 3TB Seagate Drives (Raid 1 Mirror)
DJing / Music Equipment
Desktop PC: 27″ iMAC Mid-2011
QuadCore i5 (2.7GHz 6MB)
- AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512MB of GDDR5 memory
- 16GB RAM
- 2TB Crucial SSD (Internal)
- Fusion Pro Virtualisation
- OS: Mac OS X High Sierra 10.13.x
- VMs:
- Windows 10, with Office 2019 Professional, Visio & Project
- OS: Mac OS X High Sierra 10.13.x
- Microsoft Office (Standard for Mac, Outlook & OneNote Removed)
- Photo Software
- DJ Software
- Serato DJ Pro
- Play Expansion
- FX Expansion
- Pitch ‘N’ Time Expansion
- In Key
- Platinum Notes
- Mixed In Key
- Serato DJ Pro
DJing live doesn’t require much in the way of power so these old 2010 Polymer Unibody MacBooks are more than sufficient.
Armoured Home/DJ Laptop 1: 2010 MacBook (White)
- 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache
- 16GB (2 x 8GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM
- 1TB Crucial SSD Upgrade.
- OS: Mac OS X High Sierra 10.13.x
- Microsoft Office (Standard for Mac, Outlook & OneNote Removed)
- Photo Software
- DJ Software
Armoured Home/DJ Laptop 2: 2010 MacBook (White)
- 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache
- 8GB (2 x 4GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM
- 480GB SanDisk SSD Upgrade.
- OS: Mac OS X High Sierra 10.13.x
- Microsoft Office (Standard for Mac)
- DJ Software
Headphones: Bose Quiet Comfort 35
Watch: Xioami Huami Amazfit Stratos