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> Developers and designers need high end machines This is simply not true. Explain to me why you need an i7 as a dev but the consumers using your product don't
by ythl 10y ago
> Developers and designers need high end machines
This is simply not true. Explain to me why you need an i7 as a dev but the consumers using your product don't need an i7 to run the exact same thing.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> > Developers and designers need high end machines > Explain to me why you need an i7 as a dev but the consumers using your product don't need an i7 to run the exact same thing. Because dev tools take resources that the product doesn't take on the end user machine while running in delivered form. Whether that's compile/build tools, whether that's running server and client simultaneously on a dev machine, whether that's running code in debug form under debugger rather than "naked" in delivered form, or whether that's just the power to run the code itself alongside an IDE, there's all kinds of reasons why a dev machine needs more than is required for an end user of the code being developed. Similar, overlapping, but not exactly identical concerns apply to "designers" as opposed to "developers".
- ythl 10y agoSorry, but I just don't buy it. You don't need a super powerful machine for web development. Maybe game development, but not web development.
- puppetmaster3 10y agoNot everyone is tall, likely you are short. Web developers need to batch resize images to make them smaller. Most developers are expensive and should not be paid to wait. But there are exceptions, some developers are not expensive.