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I had 16 and it was so slow, I went all the way
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Christian Graus wrote: I had 16 and it was so slow, I went all the way
My policy nowadays is to always max out the RAM.
But that's me. I make extensive use of VMs, and when they're an integral part of your work routine, you can never have too much RAM. In my experience, you'll be memory-starved long before other resources become a problem.
This is where it's worth checking the maximum amount of memory a motherboard will accommodate. I used to never look at that figure. Now it's one of the first things I check. The next system I get, to replace my existing 64GB host, will either have 128GB or else it's not being replaced at all.
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I agree. I used to use a lot of VMs. Either way, it's better to start with a full deck. I argued for 32 on my work machine, got given 16, and it's always at 100%
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640Kb should be enough...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Quote: Everything still pristine.
No registry/repository bloat.
Heckin' faster than the last one.
Still has that new car smell.
I love it.
I know that feeling.
Quote: I don't like setting them up
Instead, I do like that.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Everything still pristine.
No registry/repository bloat.
Heckin' faster than the last one.
Still has that new car smell.
I love it.
Do an image before you get started... faster than reinstalling 
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Yeah but then I have to store the image somewhere.
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Image of system partition in the data disk? 15 Gb or so should be done.
Last PC I set up was for my father in law. A mid-low segment machine with a couple of better cherry pick ups...
Reinstalling from the image was like 250 seconds or so. And it restores all customization you already did at once.
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How much does such a beast cost, under your skies, if I may ask ? Is it a laptop ?
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Already answered here[^]
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It's a desktop and it cost $1200USD on amazon
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My current dev machine is 9 years old - it's does everything I need it to do so it's only recently that I have been considering replacing it.
It's amazing how long a desktop box can keep going for - although I am currently thinking of getting a small form factor HP machine to replace it.
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― Christopher Hitchens
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I've had my HP EliteDesk 800 for about a year now and am very happy with it. We have have about 30 or so at work for about 2 years, of which we've only had to replace one faulty hard drive. Other than that they have been very reliable (software issues are another story but not related to HP).
When you are ready to upgrade, have a look.
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I have a hate-love situation with HP.
At work I have got some of their machines and were really good. But many HP devices used in my private field / family have been often a PITA.
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I've noticed that. For the past 15-20 years at least HP's commercial products have been great, and their home products, just junk to middling at best.
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Thanks - I have been looking at the Pro Desk and Elite Desk models.
It good to have a recommendation 
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I bit the bullet and have ordered for the HP EliteDesk 800 G5 i7, so thanks for the tip
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GuyThiebaut wrote: My current dev machine is 9 years old...
My two are 14 years (primary) and 10 years old (secondary). Haven't had an issue with either. My home machine of less than five years is currently in the shop for a new PSU and faulty DIMM.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
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"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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honey the codewitch wrote: Currently onboard video (I'm not a gamer but i might buy a used vid card)
Good luck with that. The current GPU market is an utterly fubarred mess with everything not comically slow new and out of stock, scalped at 30-50% markup, or used and probably as expensive as when new.
It's been a perfect storm of NVidia's previous generation being a rather meh improvement leading to a lot fewer upgrades, the current one being an awesome upgrade that even people who bought a year ago want to trade up from, and crimecoin prices booming leading to miners buying anything they can get their filthy hands on to run proof of pollution powered money printers.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It's not a big deal for me. I'm fine with a GTX 980 or 1060 or something. About $150 on ebay and I'm set.
Here's why. I have a game console.
Pretty much the only reason I want a video card is so I can play the fallout franchise on my PC, and build mods for fallout 4.
I don't need anything fancy.
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honey the codewitch wrote: No registry/repository bloat.
The registry, I can live with.
Repositories? Seeing the mess that NPM can create, I genuinely wonder WTF happened when I wasn't looking. I have coworkers putting together a small-ish web site, and their source tree contains well over 100,000 files. I so don't want to live in that world.
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Good grief, you're still "sitting up straight" at a desktop?
Debugging for hours if not days is best done in a recliner with a bankie (Depending on how wintery winter is where the coder be).
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I don't like laptops. I used to use them for years as my primary dev machine. I have a tendency to break them or leave them places and get them stolen.
However, I do have a 55" TV monster hooked up to it so I can sit back on my bed and use it. 
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honey the codewitch wrote: However, I do have a 55" TV monster hooked up to it so I can sit back on my bed and use it.
I suppose your husband sleeps with eye protectors and ear plugs...  
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I have everything dark themed and mute my speakers. He's the one that wanted it in the bedroom.
Knowing I sleep maybe 4 hours a night.
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