I agree Kyley, you do need to re-invest in your Hardware....better you have it than the taxman take your $$....but there is one thing that you need to keep in mind. Whilst your software runs at an amazing pace on your PC, the customer may not have such a speedy machine and your software "may" run like a one legged dog. If you are developeing for a single client you can say ....go update your hardware, but when developing for a mass-market (well as mass as you can get in NZ) you may have people trying to run your kick-ass software on a PIII 700 or something. I always try to take this into consideration, and hence why I still ahve a 3year old PC. If it flys on my machine I have written nice-ish tight code and it will be fine on other PC's. However, when customers have better machines than you, its time to do some investment :-) Which is what I am doing at the moment. I just have to decide what to get.....!
As for 2 monitors, I tried that a few years back, but I have to say it just annoyed me, so I have go back to a big single monitor. I guess its about what works for me and I know others will say its mad, bit honestly it doenst bother me having 1 monitor. Jeremy On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Sean Cross <[email protected]>wrote: > If you want two monitors on a laptop, look at > http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/dh2go/ > > Personally I don't think I will go back to using a desktop any time soon. > My combination of 24" monitor and 17" laptop works fine. Big screen for > dev, small screen for email, word etc, > > Regards > > Sean Cross > CIO > Catalyst Risk Management > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Alister Christie > Sent: Friday, 17 April 2009 10:20 a.m. > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues > > I'd like to plug 2 monitors into my laptop, but not supported - a 30 > inch screen would be good to - but a bit expensive at the moment, plus > it requires dual dvi (as far as I understand). I think I'll get a > desktop for my next dev machine for just this reason. > > Alister Christie > Computers for People > Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 > http://www.salespartner.co.nz > PO Box 13085 > Johnsonville > Wellington > > [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 >
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