W dniu 07.01.2011 18:11, Richard Hauswald pisze: > Backup on a daily basis(!). I promise you: If you ever developed > webapps on a SSD you will never develop using a HDD again. If you have > to switch back... ...it will be hard!
Yep, I'm using RAID 0 for my system partition and I'm not complaining, too. Substantially cheaper than getting top of the line SSD (tried some cheaper ones and they were worse than HDDs) and performance is on par. > Any Dual Core CPU should suite your needs, I never ever ran out CPU > power when developing software. Memory is something you can't get > enough of. 4GB is ok but I'd like to have 6GB, cause Firefox, Eclipse, > Tomcat, Windows 7, Windowx XP Mode and a Linux VM running in parallel > is not so uncommon for a developer. But nearly to much for 4GB RAM. Damn, perhaps I should be asking about _software_ stack, not hardware one. Eclipse and Tomcat seem to be better for a PC than Netbeans and Glassfish are. As I'm writing these words, Netbeans and Glassfish running for some 3 or 4 hours take 2,5GB of my memory and it grows with each redeploy, max I've seen was almost 8GB. "killall -9 java" became a kind of routine for me since NB+GF will become unstable well before the take up those 12GBs I have. I guess memory is not a problem these days, since it's cheap and easy to get 8GB or more even in a laptop. Perhaps one can't run "out" of CPU, but when I compare compilation time of the same project on my machine which is 4-5s to my friend's Mac where it's about 20-30s, I believe my productivity _can_ hurt because of a slow CPU. Especially on my old laptop which compiles the same project in 3 minutes. And compilation is not all, frequent redeployments, switching between IDE and browser and Photoshop and Virtualbox, using Firebug, all this is much more acceptable on a fast, multi-core CPU. That's why I'm asking about i5 and i7 laptops -- I can read benchmarks all day, but I'd love to hear what development on these machines feels like, especially from folks who use Netbeans and Glassfish combo. The only other option is to find a shop that will let me play with a laptop for an hour before I buy it :-D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Stripes-users mailing list Stripes-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users
