[arch-dev-public] x86_64 machines for Arch devs

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Dusty Phillips <buchuki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I know we all agreed to drop i686 support, but it leaves me with a
> small problem -- I'm one of the few devs not yet blessed with a 64 bit
> machine. I was thinking maybe we could use the donation funding to buy
> x86_64 build boxes for each of us. We've got a lot of donation funding
> and the income from Schwag would of course help, but we'd probably
> have to do a donation drive to raise about half the funds. It seems
> like a good use of the funding to me, and our community is totally
> awesome, I'm sure it won't be hard to raise it.
>
> What do you guys think?

Are we looking at doing desktop machines or laptops? Desktops would
obviously be cheaper, but that assumes you already have the keyboard,
monitor, mouse, etc.

-Dan