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Is your development machine powerful enough?   [Edit]

Survey period: 23 Jan 2012 to 30 Jan 2012

Not that long ago a developer was never satisfied with the power of his machine. Has that changed?

OptionVotes% 
Yes45932.48
Mostly50635.81
Not really31822.51
Not even close1188.35
I don't do software development120.85



 
GeneralMostly Pin
koolprasad200322-Jan-12 23:25
professionalkoolprasad200322-Jan-12 23:25 
GeneralSatisfied, but more wouldn't hurt :) Pin
XTAL25622-Jan-12 23:20
XTAL25622-Jan-12 23:20 
GeneralRe: Satisfied, but more wouldn't hurt :) Pin
Gergo Bogdan23-Jan-12 5:24
Gergo Bogdan23-Jan-12 5:24 
GeneralRe: Satisfied, but more wouldn't hurt :) Pin
snorkie23-Jan-12 7:45
professionalsnorkie23-Jan-12 7:45 
GeneralRe: Satisfied, but more wouldn't hurt :) Pin
XTAL25623-Jan-12 11:49
XTAL25623-Jan-12 11:49 
GeneralRe: Satisfied, but more wouldn't hurt :) Pin
Johnny J.24-Jan-12 12:33
professionalJohnny J.24-Jan-12 12:33 
GeneralRe: Satisfied, but more wouldn't hurt :) Pin
Lutosław24-Jan-12 12:51
Lutosław24-Jan-12 12:51 
GeneralYes, for once Pin
jim lahey22-Jan-12 23:00
jim lahey22-Jan-12 23:00 
Now that I've joined a new company I've got a shiny new i7 laptop with 8Gb of RAM which will do nicely for me. It's even a tad better than my laptop at home. Very happy with it at the moment. VS2010 with loads of extensions and ReSharper works just fine.

Previously I've worked at a multinational global IT services provider, a fortune 500 company who saw fit to equip me with a Core Duo with 2Gb of memory with a tendency to overheat for no apparent reason and send me off to do SharePoint 2010 development with that steaming heap of crap.

A word of warning to anyone doing SP2010 work on a virtual machine - you'll need to provision at least 4Gb memory to the VM or you'll be waiting 5 minutes for a context menu to appear, something that didn't overtly concern the management too much despite most of my working day consisting of letting go of the mouse and waiting..
GeneralIt runs... Pin
Sander Rossel22-Jan-12 22:35
professionalSander Rossel22-Jan-12 22:35 
GeneralYes - perhaps too much so. PinPopular
OriginalGriff22-Jan-12 21:22
mveOriginalGriff22-Jan-12 21:22 
GeneralIt depends... PinPopular
Mehdi Gholam22-Jan-12 20:20
Mehdi Gholam22-Jan-12 20:20 
GeneralRe: It depends... Pin
Jan Steyn22-Jan-12 21:54
Jan Steyn22-Jan-12 21:54 
GeneralYes, before... PinPopular
Paul M Watt22-Jan-12 19:20
mentorPaul M Watt22-Jan-12 19:20 
GeneralRe: Yes, before... Pin
Lutosław24-Jan-12 12:49
Lutosław24-Jan-12 12:49 

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