If money is not an issue, I think two 30 inch lcd monitors is the way to go ;-)
I only got one at home to look at my photos. It is amazing. I used a spyder to adjusted the color. I am programming c at home using gcc which is great to look at everything on that 30inch lcd monitor. Have a nice day Regards Leigh -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Kyley Harris Sent: Friday, 17 April 2009 9:55 a.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues id never work on that little thing.. dvd player.. I have a Quad Core with 2 22" montiors running 1600x1050 On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Alister Christie <[email protected]> wrote: except you'd go blind if you had to do any real dev work on because of the small screen. I now plug an external 24 inch screen into my laptop for a similar reason (fewer headaches). The laptop does have a 17 inch screen but at 1920x1200 things are a bit small. I remember when I was first programming in Delphi on a 14 (maybe it was 15) inch monitor - my how things have changed. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Kyley Harris wrote: > I have one of those $500 Asus EEE computers that runs windows XP on > 256MB of ram, and a 4GB SSD.. takes 25seconds to boot up.. way faster > than any other laptop.. still has 120mb free ram and 1gb of disk > space.. I plug a USB hdd into it and its great. battery life is awesome > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Stefan Mueller > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I am also keeping my eyes open for SSD .. those drives should be > able to > improve compile speeds drastically ... they have close to no > seek-times and > manage to read thousands of small files at high speed. > > I probably go with one of the PCIe cards coming out soon (like OCZ > Z-Drive, > or PhotoFast Monster) if the price is ok. PCIe cards have the > advantage that > they get over the 300MBps (theoretical) limit that SATA-II has. > > The OCZ Vertex-II drive also looks promising: > http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&task > =view > <http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&tas k%0A=view> > > > Regards, > Stefan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] On > Behalf Of Ross Levis > Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:56 > To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' > Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues > > I'm looking forward to larger cheaper solid state drives which > last up to > 100 years, replacing hard drives which fail every few years. 10+ > times > faster than a hard drive. I've heard a PC with one of these > drives can boot > Windows XP in 4 seconds. > > Prices will get below US$2 per GB this year. It's still out of my > price > range, but I'm considering upgrading my laptop's hard drive to a 240GB > SanDisk drive later this year. > http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=8040 > > Ross. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] On > Behalf Of Richard Bullin > Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2009 12:15 p.m. > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: Re: [DUG] BDS.exe memory issues > > I'm not really sure if 300mb classifies Delphi as a memory hog if you > look at getting one of the below computers with 192GB of ram, I > foresee > a surge in lazy programmers :) > > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&; > articleId=9130538 > <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&%0A articleId=9130538> > > > Richard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] > On Behalf Of Alister Christie > Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2009 12:01 p.m. > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: Re: [DUG] BDS.exe memory issues > > Currently I'm on 254MB. > > Close Delphi - 0MB > Open Delphi - 11MB > Open Project - 71MB > Compile - 154MB (peaking at around 170MB) > Open a Project with modeling support - 215MB > > And the numbers just keep going up from there the more you do. > > I think it's fair to say that it is a bit of a memory hog. Although I > have 6 chrome processes running currently eating up a total of 155MB. > > I guess we could turn this into a discussion of who is running the > most > memory hungry App and/or instance of Delphi currently? > (Currently Jeremy leads at 307MB) > > Alister Christie > Computers for People > Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 > http://www.salespartner.co.nz > PO Box 13085 > Johnsonville > Wellington > > > > Jeremy Coulter wrote: > > Does anyone else get issues with BDS.exe (delphi 2007) using a > HEAP of > > > memory? > > at the moment its sitting on 307mb of mem usage ! > > > > Admittedly my current machine only has 2GB (new machine has been > > ordered....YAY) but seriously, thats HEAPS. > > In saying that, I notic that FireFox is sitting on 131mb too. > > > > just wondered if this is a common issue, and if there is a > solution to > > > it or not. > > > > > > Jeremy > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > > Post: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> with > Subject: unsubscribe > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> with Subject: > unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> with Subject: > unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> with Subject: > unsubscribe > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> with Subject: unsubscribe > > > > > -- > Kyley Harris > Harris Software > +64-21-671-821 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe -- Kyley Harris Harris Software +64-21-671-821
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