+10 for mechanical keyboards. I got me one of these: http://www.razerzone.com/au-en/gaming-keyboards-keypads/razer-blackwidow-ultimate-stealth-2013/
and one of these: http://www.corsair.com/vengeance-k90-performance-mmo-mechanical-gaming-keyboard.html Takes some getting used to and you people can hear you typing from the neighbours house. (Even your neighbour would hear it Grant... lol) Hmm.. just reading there is a stealth edition (which I thought I had...) so the non stealth edition is probably even louder... unless I've just gotten the model I have wrong. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Grant Maw <[email protected]> wrote: > Another thing I have found that keeps me moving, albeit a lesser thing, is > a decent keyboard. Particularly for us older fellows (I am looking at you > Greg Keogh) who grew up on solid hardware instead of the flimsy plastic > rubbish that gets sold these days, a decent keyboard boosts productivity > off the wall. I just bought an Armour U9W wireless mechanical keyboard and > it is the *best* I have used since my Uni days. It's heavy (you could belt > nails in with it), feels great, is non-slip and has a range of over 20m. I > can't imagine why one would want to be typing from 20m away - it's a bit > like an art gallery in that respect (you never use it, but it's good to > know that it's there). > > Cheers > > G > > > On 12 July 2013 13:32, Stephen Price <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 <[email protected]>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 >>> >> >> >
