Another thing I have found that keeps me moving, albeit a lesser thing, is a decent keyboard. Particularly for us older fellows (I am looking at you Greg Keogh) who grew up on solid hardware instead of the flimsy plastic rubbish that gets sold these days, a decent keyboard boosts productivity off the wall. I just bought an Armour U9W wireless mechanical keyboard and it is the *best* I have used since my Uni days. It's heavy (you could belt nails in with it), feels great, is non-slip and has a range of over 20m. I can't imagine why one would want to be typing from 20m away - it's a bit like an art gallery in that respect (you never use it, but it's good to know that it's there).
Cheers G On 12 July 2013 13:32, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> wrote: > Totally agree. I've taken work laptops and put my own SSD hard drive in > them in the past (without asking for permission usually. They hire me > trusting that I know what I'm doing, and I know that it will mean I won't > be sitting about waiting for stuff to happen). > I did some benchmarking on build times and found that I could do a build > in about 5 to 10 minutes. The rest of the team were taking 15 minutes per > build. Companies really need to wake up and realise a few hundred dollars > will save them immeasurable volumes of wasted time. AND keep their staff > happy. Arguably their best resource. So worth it. > > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Preet Sangha <preetsan...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> About 2 years ago I opted to purchase a laptop that was the fastest I >> could afford but not paying stupid money. >> >> My work these days is mostly heavy database work so every gram of >> performance helps. It has a Sandybridge I7 and 16G of Ram. The key thing >> that sold me this laptop was that it supports 2 x sata III hard >> drives.These I replaced with a RAID-0 pair of fast SSDs. >> >> Anyway the point of this email is not that I'm boasting but that I cannot >> ever imagine going back to working on slower hardware ever again. The >> experience of not waiting to rebooting the machine, opening apps like >> visual studio or rebooting virtual machines in mere seconds (in fact I >> built a new Windows7 VM in about 6 minutes from scratch) . >> >> If I can recommend anything to fellow dev,s especially those that do the >> paid time consultancy, is that please don't cripple yourself with bad >> tools. >> >> -- >> regards, >> Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland >> > >
