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 >
