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)

• Quad-Core 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)
• 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:

• Synology Drive Client Sync (sync between devices) for Windows/Mac OS X/Linux & Android/iOS
• Synology Note (sync between devices)  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 running/testing apps on both eco-systems.

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)
• Quad-Core 2.4 GHz CPU
• 16GB RAM (Internal & External SIMMs upgraded)

NAS: Synology DS214+

• 2 x 2TB Western Digital Red Drives (Synology Hybrid RAID 1)
• Dual-Core ARM CPU
• 1GB RAM (Non-Upgradable)

NAS: Buffalo LS220D – Apple Timemachine

• 2 x 3TB Seagate Drives (Raid 0)

DJing / Music Equipment

Desktop PC: 27″ iMAC Mid-2011

• Quad-Core 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
• 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
  • Algoriddim
    • Neural Mix 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

Corlitec Portable Air Conditioner (9000 BTU)