Hi Allen Two must-read's from Linus Torvalds and Jeff Atwood about SSD's:
http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-i-got-one-of-new-intel-ssds.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001304.html That's my next upgrade! Rada Varshavskaya On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 21:24, <talk-requ...@lists.nyphp.org> wrote: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:50:30 -0500 > From: Allen Shaw <al...@twomiceandastrawberry.com> > To: NYPHP Talk <talk@lists.nyphp.org> > Subject: [nyphp-talk] developer's machine specs -- recomendations? > Message-ID: <4adbb7d6.8070...@twomiceandastrawberry.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > 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" >
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