--- Forwarded Message from [log in to unmask] --- >Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:39:59 -0500 (CDT) >Subject: computer configurations for "ideal workstation" >From: [log in to unmask] >To: [log in to unmask] >Cc: [log in to unmask] >User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a >Importance: Normal Dear LLTI-ers, I'd like you all to dream for a moment . . . I am in the enviable position of being able to spend a reasonable-sized budget on new equipment that will serve as state-of-the-art workstations for faculty multimedia project development in support of language teaching. I would like to request your input in the areas of hardware configuration as well as necessary peripherals. Please address any or all of the areas listed below and feel free to add areas that are not listed. *Please* restrict the discussion to equipment for the moment, perhaps a software discussion will follow . . . I will compile the answers for posting back to LLTI after enough responses have come in (i.e., the next time I actually get a spare moment to get to it!). Thanks in advance for your collaboration. Mark Lauersdorf ----------------------------------- 1) optimal hardware configurations for both Mac and PC platforms Please do think truly "optimal" (but not "extravagant"). If it turns out that the budget is "less reasonable-sized" than I am anticipating, I will adjust things downward where necessary. By hardware configurations I mean the things you stuff in the box (processor and speed, RAM type and size, video/audio/TV/FireWire/etc. cards, hard drive size, removable storage devices, ports, etc.) and the monitor. ---------- 2) necessary peripherals Here, as one way to get the peripheral thinking process started, is a by-no-means-exhaustive list of categories: - scanning (opaque and transparent; image and text) - analog to digital conversion (audio and video) - digital input (image, audio, video) - digital output (image, audio, video) - direct digital capture (sound recording, still and moving image capture) - storage to various media (floppy?!, CD, DVD, external HD) - print output ----------------------------------- Dr. Mark R. Lauersdorf Associate Professor of Linguistics Director of the Language Media Center Department of Modern and Classical Languages University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA phone: 859-257-7101 *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning, and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://consortium.dartmouth.edu). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************