I always give my teams top line hardware. Typically a MBP with at least 2gb of Ram. We do our dev against VMs using Fusion and Studio (or whatever) as the host IDE through VMware shared folders. It keeps the host clean, allows us to be flexible, and whatever you spend in hardware/software is always made up in productivity
John On Oct 18, 2009 5:50 PM, "Allen Shaw" <al...@twomiceandastrawberry.com> wrote: Who here is happy with their current development machine? Would you care to share your hardware specs? I'm looking to upgrade my 7-year old desktop for something with a little more snap. Hopefully under $1000, but it's been ages since I shopped prices, so clue me in if I'm naive. For context: This is for full-time web app development primarily in PHP, running some flavor of Linux. Essentially no graphic design work at all. Desktop or laptop, I'm indifferent. For the most part I've been fine with my current setup, but I recently started using a framework which, for all I can do to it, takes 10 and 15 seconds to render a page on this machine. I've finally decided just to throw hardware at it. Page-load times are unnoticeable on my rented hosting servers, so I can't really blame the framework. On this machine, when I'm loading pages all day trying "this way" or "that way", those 15-second page loads add up pretty fast. I'd love to hear any advice on what makes a good web developer's machine. At this point I don't have a lot of places to ask, other than vendors who'll just sell me as much as they can con me into. Thanks, Allen -- Allen Shaw TwoMiceAndAStrawberry.com "Data Management, Web Applications, and the Meaning of Life" _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
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