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Slow machines give you more time to think (or surf the web). Unfortunately, mine is fast enought 
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the pc at my last job blew chunks, mostly because of the lame HD that was installed with it. the HD was so slow that I used to walk away from the machine while serious disk activity was happening.
kind of reminded me of the old days (286 and older) when we would start up the machine and then take a morning break while it was starting up.
I have only worked at one place where my development machine screamed.
as if the facebook, twitter and message boards weren't enough - blogged
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Should've begged for an SSD. At least I know next time.
Home PC rocks though 
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Buy only because I was whining like a 4 year old for about a year until I finally got a new one. That was 6 months ago so it's still pretty good.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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Well since I am in charge of hardware purchases my development box is reasonably fast. Not as fast as the home box but I am more under budget concerns at work and I can not buy from eBay.
John
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Not really, but representative of client machines.
I tend to program for small resource footprint applications with as few third party add-ins as I can get away with. Programming applications on last month’s machine assures that I don't get carried away with the wow features. We do test the applications prior to sending them out, but having the speed bumps in place during development minimizes reworking the code.
A good portion of my work are special use applications and having to troubleshoot issues over the phone with unknown systems and clueless operators can be quite frustrating. Especially on limited admin access systems.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Using the same box for over 4 years and requested a faster system. Three weeks ago, by some stroke of luck, the laptop died.
They replaced it with a used, same model system, with 10% SLOWER CPUs...
If you think that's bleak and cheerless, too bad. Reality doesn't owe us comfort. - Richard Dawkins
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and that includes back when developing on shared systems (OpenVMS).
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My primary development machine is a single core 3GHz/2GB Xeon running XP sp2.
I'd like to whine that I need more power and all that, but in reality, it works out well having a system that is more similar to that of the other 250 or so systems here than it is different.
That being said, and the fact that all replacements are coming in with Win7, I would certainly like a new toy. But then, don't we all?.
With the whole place soon to go thin-client, who knows what the future brings? As long as my desktop is fully loaded.
Donations will be accepted.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Donated a vote of 5! 
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I think my Core-i7, Win 7 Ultimate, 4GB Ram, 500GB HDD with VS 2010 Ultimate is sufficient enough. You can't complain with that. Though you can ask for more.
// ♫ 99 little bugs in the code,
// 99 bugs in the code
// We fix a bug, compile it again
// 101 little bugs in the code ♫
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'bout the same specs as my machine. Powerful enough, really, except that it runs Visual Studio which seems to have the magic power of bringing anything to a grinding halt.
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What's a signature?
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And I recently got a new PC - Dell 990X equipped with i7-2600, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, 6450 video card and U2412M monitor.
Working on it is a pure joy!
And once you go SSD you never turn back!
Cheers
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Human is always unsatisfy with the things he has !
last sunday i have buy web camera with all good features but yesterday same company lunches a X-series brand piece.
and now i upset "why i not wait for a week, i should got X-Series cam" 
Anyways, same thing with my development machine, i am always unsatisfy.
but now i think, it has most thing that i need 
Rating always..... WELCOME
The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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Quad Core (~3GHz), 64-bit, 4Gb RAM.
I don't need a lot of power, but running VMs can slow things down, especially if it's a Windows 7 guest. Upping the RAM to 8Gb would probably help, but would mostly be a waste.
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On my workstation I have an i5 at 3.1Ghz It was upgraded from 4 to 8 GBs of memory...well what can I say the speed increase was significant. With 4GB of memory most of the time 3GB was used and at this point I saw that Windows 7 was dramatically slow (it hasn't done any swapping), I really don't understand why. The same thing happens if I have 6.5 - 7GB used out of 8. Have you noticed similar issues ?
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The biggest speed up I saw for Virtual Machines was adding an additional HDD separate from my Windows drive. I have a Raid 5 with 3 500GB drives, but VMs were slow. Added a separate (fourth) 500GB drive for virtual machines and they are significantly faster! Now if my machine only supported more HDDs.....
Hogan
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Yes, a separate HDD would help too.
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XTAL256 wrote: Satisfied, but more wouldn't hurt
Is that what she's trying to get you to believe??? 
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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- That's what SHE said.
- Yes. Yes it is.
Greetings - Jacek
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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..
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Just not very fast
Unless you're talking about my computer at home which is an overpowered gaming beast!... Two years ago 
It runs Visual Studio like a charm, but I can't play all the newest games on ultra high settings anymore...
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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Until recently, when it died, I ran a dual-processor Xeon 2GB HP box, now I run a 4GB Dual core.
I try to run a development machine that is a bit lower spec than the client will run the app on deliberately, so that I know if it is fast enough on my PC, it will be easily fast enough on theirs.
And that is what is important - that the customer is happy, not me!
And then they pay me. And I'm happy!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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If you are using Eclipse then anything less than a super computer is not good...
If you are using Visual Studio 2010 then a mainframe is the minimum...
I just wish the platform companies would profile and optimize their products for us mere mortals!
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
If the final destination is death, then we should enjoy every second of the journey.
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Did the Celerons get reclassified as mainframes now? My home PC is a dual core Celeron and I do a significant bit of Visual Studio development work on it and it isn't too slow. I want it faster but won't be hitting it with a hammer yet.
My work PC is a Quad Core i5 though with 4GB RAM laptop. Which is more than adequate, thank you!
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