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16gb of RAM minimum is important. SSD hard drives as well. A big monitor or multiple ones if you're into that thing. Ergonomic mice/keyboards if you need them.
by wishinghand 10y ago
16gb of RAM minimum is important. SSD hard drives as well. A big monitor or multiple ones if you're into that thing. Ergonomic mice/keyboards if you need them.
- slededit 10y agoThat's still around $1000 or so for a decent machine. When Joel first wrote that it would have been more like $3,000. A $3,000 machine is probably overkill for most developers now - as evidenced by the fact most sacrifice performance and get laptops willingly.
- mturmon 10y agoJust for yucks, I took a look at some old purchase orders for Sun engineering workstations (single-user). They used to sit on everyone's desk at a well-funded engineering outfit. I saw an Ultra/1 (170MHz) for about $15K in 1996, and a Ultra 60 (360 MHz, 1GB RAM) for $19.8K in 1998. It's gotten a lot cheaper.
- wishinghand 10y agoUnless it's a struggling startup, I'd still expect a good $3-4k for developer comforts, unless it's something I already owned (like my favorite ergonomic mouse).