For testing on "slower" PCs, here's one thought of mine. I use VirtualPC for doing a lot of testing. While I accept it's difficult to quantify how much slower a VPC is rather than my desktop, it is most definitely slower. Plus you have the ability to control the memory available to the VPC. Using Virtual Server would probably give you even more control, since you can throttle the processor availability for a VPC as well. As well as VirtualPC for testing on my dev box, I use virtual machines on a Virtual Server for build PCs, etc. The change to the Delphi license a couple of versions ago just made that scenario more legit. ;-) Cheers, C.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter Sent: Friday, 17 April 2009 10:46 a.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues 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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