Recently acquired a new Asus G1. This was a chance to go all out and build a beta-beast — a machine running the latest and greatest everything, with all the bells and whistles. The ultimate goal is to have a desktop replacement tricked out for cross-platform web development.

So far, I am seeing some instability problems (X / KDE crashing at seemingly random times). This is a work in progress.

Hardware Specs:

• Processor: ASUS G1 Intel® Core™2 Duo T7200 (2.0GHz)
• Screen: 15.4″ WSXGA+ (1680×1050) ColorShine
• RAM: 2048M DDR2 667
• Hard Disk: 160GB HD 5400 RPM
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForceGo 7700 GPU 512 MB

Operating System: Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn 64-bit

The famous Cube

Another shot of the Cube

‘Rubbery’ windows

Running VLC in Beryl

Running VMWare and Ubuntu Ultimate Gamers’ Edition

The ‘Scale’ function in Beryl

VLC playing video within VMWare, within Beryl

I will be installing XP and Vista in VMWare, and reporting back. Stay tuned.