I'd personally spend $400 or $500 of that budget on two nice, large 21" or larger monitors and then build a "budget" PC. With the remaining $500 or so, you can put together a decent quad core system: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5226067&CatId=333 + 2 of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009157 you'd spend well less than a thousand dollars and have a pretty decent system.
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:50 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 > _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
