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Re: Developers shouldn't have powerful machines (with some exceptions) PIEBALDconsult25-Jan-12 2:55 PIEBALDconsult 25-Jan-12 2:55  Perhaps you mean a test system? Re: Developers shouldn't have powerful machines (with some exceptions) Ravi Bhavnani25-Jan-12 4:06 Ravi Bhavnani 25-Jan-12 4:06  Eksith wrote: A developer should never expect a client to use similar or better hardware Agreed. Eksith wrote: Developers shouldn't have powerful machines Highly not true. /ravi My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com My Dev Machine is 4 years old and still very fast TomKnights23-Jan-12 10:07 TomKnights 23-Jan-12 10:07  MAC x2 XEON Quad Core 2.8GHz, 18GB RAM x2 512GB SSD (Not 4 years old!) NVidia GTX285 And still compiles great!! Re: My Dev Machine is 4 years old and still very fast Mario Majčica23-Jan-12 10:50 Mario Majčica 23-Jan-12 10:50  Seems that at the time it compiled also your pocket. All the cache was transformed in IV (Intermediate Value) and disappeared! My dev box PSU Steve23-Jan-12 8:54 PSU Steve 23-Jan-12 8:54  Quad core Xeon W3550 @ 3GHZ. Vista 64-bit (can't go to Win 7 yet), 24GB RAM. VS2010 and SQL Server 2008 dev environment. Quite speedy. New dev machine Nigel Stratton23-Jan-12 7:47 Nigel Stratton 23-Jan-12 7:47  There is some advantage to being the only developer in a mid-sized trucking company. I had the same laptop for three years, I wanted a new desktop and they wanted to deploy the notebook. So I got a quad core i7 3.4Ghz, 64Gb SSD + 1Tb HDD, 8Gb RAM and three monitors. Pays for having to slog everything out on my own. Slow Machines sellinger23-Jan-12 7:46 sellinger 23-Jan-12 7:46  Slow machines give you more time to think (or surf the web). Unfortunately, mine is fast enought better than before... Dennis E White23-Jan-12 7:11 Dennis E White 23-Jan-12 7:11  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 Slow harddive on laptop is such a showstopper leppie23-Jan-12 6:42 leppie 23-Jan-12 6:42  Should've begged for an SSD. At least I know next time. Home PC rocks though IronScheme <small>((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x)))</small> It's ok. fjdiewornncalwe23-Jan-12 5:12 fjdiewornncalwe 23-Jan-12 5:12  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. I has been for a while John M. Drescher23-Jan-12 2:47 John M. Drescher 23-Jan-12 2:47  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 Not really to just sufficient S Houghtelin23-Jan-12 2:32 S Houghtelin 23-Jan-12 2:32  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. So 45 days ago, I requested a faster laptop dexterama23-Jan-12 2:19 dexterama 23-Jan-12 2:19  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 Yes, never had a problem PIEBALDconsult23-Jan-12 2:02 PIEBALDconsult 23-Jan-12 2:02  and that includes back when developing on shared systems (OpenVMS). I'd Like to Whine, but W∴ Balboos, GHB23-Jan-12 1:48 W∴ Balboos, GHB 23-Jan-12 1:48  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 Re: I'd Like to Whine, but Clark Kent12323-Jan-12 2:18 Clark Kent123 23-Jan-12 2:18  Donated a vote of 5! A Yes Ravi Sant23-Jan-12 1:38 Ravi Sant 23-Jan-12 1:38  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 ♫ Re: A Yes Pete Appleton23-Jan-12 22:20 Pete Appleton 23-Jan-12 22:20  '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. -- What's a signature? A proper machine is essential Mario Majčica23-Jan-12 0:14 Mario Majčica 23-Jan-12 0:14  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 Mostly koolprasad200322-Jan-12 23:25 koolprasad2003 22-Jan-12 23:25  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. Satisfied, but more wouldn't hurt :) XTAL25622-Jan-12 23:20 XTAL256 22-Jan-12 23:20  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. [Window Detective] - Windows UI spy utility Re: Satisfied, but more wouldn't hurt :) Gergo Bogdan23-Jan-12 5:24 Gergo Bogdan 23-Jan-12 5:24  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 ? Re: Satisfied, but more wouldn't hurt :) snorkie23-Jan-12 7:45 snorkie 23-Jan-12 7:45  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 Re: Satisfied, but more wouldn't hurt :) XTAL25623-Jan-12 11:49 XTAL256 23-Jan-12 11:49  Yes, a separate HDD would help too. [Window Detective] - Windows UI spy utility Re: Satisfied, but more wouldn't hurt :) Johnny J.24-Jan-12 12:33 Johnny J. 24-Jan-12 12:33  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 ----- Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach ----- Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo! ----- Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932

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