Welcome to the Skunk Works

Lockheed Martin, known for their highly secretive experimental aircraft development, has a facility known as the Skunk Works. It has spawned some of the most amazing examples of aeronautical engineering in the world. This page, has nothing to do with that... Other than me talking about the Skunk Works.

Current Projects
My second major gaming machine will be a considerable ways out. It may be a blending of my current system Helios, or an outright replacement (excluding the case). Project name "Arbalest" So moving into a new naming schema I've decided to extend the Trowa name idea and newer systems are going to be named for various mecha. Arbalest comes from the series Full Metal Panic which you may read about at the previous link or here in the Anime section of Vraxx.com

"Arbalest -- ARX-7" Intel Core 2 Duo (Conroe) E6700 Motherboard Universal Abit AW9D-MAX Corsair 4GB DDR2 800 RAM ATI Radeon X1950XTX 512MB video RAM Seagate or WD Serial ATA ThermalRight SLK based cooling solution or potentially water cooled HSF Creative Labs X-Fi Platinum (or whatever) Windows XP (Vista?)

"Dai Guard -- Macbook Pro 2nd Gen" I'm not bit on early adoption with regards to Apple so personally I'll be waiting for a year or so until the next generation Macbook Pro is released.

Things Come Full Circle Added 4-14-05
So take an old Mac user, toss in some pending vacations, and what do you get? You get a very eager Vraxx getting a new 15" G4 PowerBook. Well there's actually more to it than that. As part of my work I've actually been meaning to really learn all I could about Mac OS X 10.3 release and the pending 10.4 'Tiger' release. Not to mention the demise of an older laptop (Sony VAIO Z505 nicknamed Vanguard) which had served as the family spare laptop. I'll hopefully have more news about this recent addition to the Vraxx.com family soon. So, rather than waste a useful name, welcome the newest computer on my network, Slate. Interested in Macintosh systems? Check out the hardware section at apple.com