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(the GSM unlocked one has a photo on the website, but they aren't selling it yet... taunting me the bastards)
I am hoping that this works as well as they claim it does (yes, we have Exchange 2003). If so, it will hopefully reduce some of the nagging I get from the existing Treo 600 users (two owners of the company).
We are getting a new machine at work. Well, new to us - it is technically used. Dual 2.8Ghz Xeons, 4GB RAM, 5 x 73GB 15K SCSI drives, hardware RAID with 128MB cache and battery backup, dual power supplies, and dual NICs.
That was in our NYC office, which was hilariously overkill since there is currently only one person up there and soon to be three or so - still way overkill. So we are bringing it down here and replacing it with another pretty good machine up there (that will get used much more with a new network setup that we are moving into place slowly).
The machine that is replacing it is a 2.8Ghz Xeon with 1GB RAM and 2 x 80GB ATA.
That and its SBS is about $2K.
Which is hilarious since a machine only marginally better than that was just put in here and cost us $9K.
All of this new hardware is making me delirious with power.
I am fully aware that many places have tons more powerful stuff in place - but our hardware is old and cranky - this will help us so much.
Speaking of hardware, my Dad's PC showed up today. I gave it to him as a present and now I guess I get it back. Alienware with dual Athlons - mostly setup for a CAD sort of machine.
I need to get an LCD screen, but currently don't even have time to open all of the boxes of stuff that came until this weekend at best.
Have been bummed lately that I haven't been reading enough. So I decided to make Wednesday the "no computer" day. Granted I have to work with them plenty during the day at work - but after work I am planning on coming home and just reading. No TV, no computer, just enjoy a book for fun.
That's another thing, no reading computer books... although I'm not sure how long I can hold off on that. I think I can, but I am not sure I can hold off on textbooks for finance or information theory - that stuff is just too cool.
On a side note, I think I am going to get High Performance MySQL - I have an O'Reilly Safari subscription and I have been reading it from there, but I am considering getting that one for "real life" since I think I am going to be referring to it a lot - if my side company starts to do well I guess. (note to self, first step is to actually get it off the ground - working on it!)
My first two books for my Wednesdays are going to be (re)reading Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon (and I am not going to get the paperback - I picked one up and it was just not the same as the hardcover I used to have) and Sundman's Acts of the Apostles, my two favorite books.
As a nerd I feel I should read Dune, as do a few of my friends, but I am having a hard time getting into it. As hard as I have each time I try to get into Grapes of Wrath.
Perhaps it is all of the sand.