¿Nunca se han preguntado que computadora usan los expertos? ¿Que programas les gustan? ¿Quiénes son los expertos? Pues bien el sitio UsesThis.com nos permite comparar nuestros gustos con aquellos bloggers, desarrolladores, ilustradores que tienen renombre alrededor del mundo.[Foto de katsushiro]

Con personajes como Gina Trapani (Blogger: smarterware.org), Máirín Duffy (UI Designer: Red Hat y Fedora), John Siracusa (Blogger: arstechnica.com), Alex Payne (Desarrollador: API Twitter), junto con Richard Stallman (Creador de GNU) y muchos otros, esta página nos presenta sus computadoras, sus escritorios y los programas que tanto utilizan.

Tras pasar cerca de 90 minutos leyendo acerca de las distintas áreas de trabajo y como desarrollan sus habilidades en éstas, sigo impresionado por el de Gina Trapani (ya sé, ya sé, pero es realmente impresionante) citándola un poco:

Since I write about software for a living, I need to stay conversant on both Mac and Windows, so I split my time between them. I’m triple-booting XP, Vista, and the Windows 7 beta on my PC, but primarily I use XP and just switch to the others to test software or make comparisons. On the Mac I’m running Leopard.

Most of my work happens in Firefox using various webapps, so it’s OS-agnostic. On any given day my copy of Firefox has several tabs open with Gmail, Google Reader, Google Calendar, my WordPress installation, Google Docs, and Twitter loaded.

Pero claro, Máirín Duffy no se queda atrás (uff y creo q me estoy enamorando):

At the office, I have three Dell Precision 470 Workstations (Spira, Hello Kitty, and Chococat) which are quite old and out-of-warranty . I use them to host various applications and projects. They all run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. I also have an old Apple G4 tower (Sanrio) that at one point a long time ago I used to convert Adobe Illustrator (*.ai) format files to SVG format. It makes a nice footstool now (nice smooth curves). My home machine (Panda) is a cheap Acer I bought at Best Buy against my better judgement. The Acer and my Playstation 3 (60GB original model) are both hooked up to an Optoma HD70 720p digital projector. Speaking of gaming, I also have an imported pink Sony PSP (2000 series) as well as a pink Nintendo DS.

O que tal John Siracusa (¡3.5 TB en discos separables! … ¡wow!)

My main machine is a 2×2.8 GHz Mac Pro (Early 2008) with 8 GB of RAM, dual optical drives, an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT video card, and 3.5 TB of disk space spread over four internal drives: two 1 TB Western Digital Caviar Blacks, a 1 TB Samsung Spinpoint F1, and the 500GB Western Digital Caviar Blue that came with the Mac.

It’s connected to a 23-inch Apple Cinema display (the model right before the 24-inch LED display was introduced) and Creative Labs GigaWorks T40 Premium 2.0 speakers, plus a separate subwoofer left over from an old set of Labtec speakers. I use the Apple aluminum keyboard that came with the Mac Pro and a Logitech MX300 mouse. (I haven’t used an Apple mouse since the one that came with my Performa 6110CD.) I’ve also got a tiny i-rocks powered USB 2.0 hub.

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