July 2011 – Abby and Win Blog

hardware

Roku2 XD

Bysherwin July 27, 2011

I just picked up the new Roku2 XD. Best Buy had them in already and thought it would be a great replacement for my Apple TV2. I’ve had my ATV2 since it became available and at first I thought it was a great device. After a few weeks of use, I changed my mind. I…

hardware

AMD E-350 running ESXi 4.1

Bysherwin July 21, 2011December 31, 2021

I’ve been playing around with the idea of getting one of those low powered CPU and running ESXi on it. I finally got a chance to playing around with one. I picked up an Asrock E350M1/USB3 from Newegg. I also got a G.Skill 8GB of ram installed. Unfortunately, the ram and mobo/cpu weren’t on sale…