These days sensible DHCP daemons can be configured to assign a single IP to multiple MAC addresses. Probably the most common use case is a laptop that is connected to your LAN through wireless or wired for that gigabit goodness, but pretty much never with both adapters at the same time, eliminating concerns about clashing IPs. Having a single IP per machine not per adapter simplifies things greatly as soon as you have any apps on your network that push data towards your client computers (i.e. Growl notifications etc). Instead of having to configure your server-side apps for two IPs for every laptop, now you don’t have to care how your user is connected.
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Introduction

This post describes a couple of discoveries regarding my Acer Aspire 751 11.6″ netbook and playing high definition video content on it.

Acer Aspire One 751 11.6" netbook