VISION AFORETHOUGHT

For fun and mainly for gadget lovers, an approximately chronological list of things I own or have owned, or that I use at work. Not intentionally materialistic, more so because gadgets and good design are a major part of my work and interest some of my colleagues and co-workers.

(This list will eventually be dynamic – thanks to something my employer is developing as part of our all ecompassing ‘RODDENBERRY’ project.)

Current (Aug 2012)

• MacBook Air 13″ i7 256GB SSD 4GB RAM (2011 edition from Chicago)
  • Except for the (as always with Apple gear) appalling WiFi, a superb machine and as other reviews world-wide validate, probably the best business and semi-pro creative laptop available, in particular with the 2012 edition faster and cheaper!
• Logitech M705 mouse
  • I always return to Logitech, best meeces by far!
• Cheap but great sounding for the price Sandstrom speakers (UK’s PC World store brand)
• Sony (Ericsson) Xperia Pro Android phone with fantastic slide out keyboard
• Apple iPhone 1/2G
  • Still the sexiest iPhone to date
• Alcatel twin sim candy bar phone (O2/Orange) for those “my car is in a ditch, I cannot get out and I’ve got no signal on Vodafone”  emergency situations and experimental projects.

Once

Masses missing, just started this list on a whim in Aug 2012.

• Samsung Galaxy Note
  • With the exception of the poorly placed power button, a superb phone, although Android ICS slows it down a bit.
  • Sold in order to wait for the Note 2 for extra processing power & hopefully improved ergonomics!
• Samsung Galaxy Nexus
  • Great design and a great intro to Android ICS, but speaker way way too quiet.
• Bose Companion 2 Series 2 desktop speakers
  • Fantastic sound (I’m a Bose man, so hit me.)
• MacBook Air 11″ 2010 edition  (SSD kept failing, so gave up after owning 3 of them in a row!)
• MacMini (2009 edition?)
• Nokia N95 8GB Black
  • One of the best mobile phones I’ve ever owned – did everything well.
• MacBook (White polycarbonate)
• MacBook (Black polycarbonate)
• PowerBook 12″
  • It was whilst owning this I realised I was alergic to ALL Apple’s aluminium products.
• Titanium 15″ Apple PowerBook (Lasted me 7 years!)
• Apple PowerPC 6100 + 17″ Monitor
• ‘Lombard’ Apple PowerBook (Black, curvy and every so sexy!)
• Apple PowerBook 140 or 170 (I cannot remember!)
• Apple PowerBook 100
• Sinclair Z88
• Acorn Archimedes RISC PC
• Commodore Amiga 1200
  • So impressed with it, called Commodore and developed this for it.
• Acorn BBC Micro Master
• Acorn BBC Micro
• Cloned Intel 286 IBM PC with twin floppy drives and Hercules graphics card
  • The prototype of ‘RODDENBERRY’ (known as ‘AllData’ then) was developed on this machine!
• Sinclair Spectrum
  • Given to me by Sir Clive Sinclair himself after I won it in a competition to predict the computer of the future.
• Sinclair ZX-81