I take it you don't have an Android phone.. if you do, you may want to develop on that instead... it's more than likely more powerful than your win2K box. :D
I got my wife a netbook for $200 that runs windows 7... 250GB hd, 1GB ram, etc. I don't recommend that tho. For about $300 or so you can get a dual-core system, or you can buy a motherboard, quad-core cpu and 2GB ram for about $400 and replace it in your current box.. keep your hard drive, cd-rom... may have to get a $40 video card tho. I agree with the above tho.. you're best bet is to put Ubuntu 9.04 (9.10 has issus), on that old machine and you'll be up to date and able to actually do some work. 1GB RAM should be good enough to get you going with Ubuntu. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Greg Donald <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:30 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I really would not like to have to buy a new computer just because of > > android... since i already work with many other platforms without > > problems. > > But this is Java, it requires more horsepower than "other platforms". > > > thanks for any tips on this side. > > You can get a new computer for less than $500 nowadays. Compared to > the time you will spend waiting for Eclipse to startup, and then more > time waiting for your emulator to start up, it'd be a good investment > in my opinion. You _will_ have to restart things on occasion, Eclipse > and ddms and the emulator all get out of sync with each other > sometimes. > > The way it works at my house is when the system becomes too old to run > windoze, I install Linux on it to squeeze another couple of years out > of it. You might try that since Android development is no more > painful on Linux than anything else. > > > -- > Greg Donald > destiney.com | gregdonald.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >
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