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well since we're sharing anecdotes I have seen machines get upgraded at work. working on a game. PVS calc took lots of memory and lots of time. Everyone's mach
by greggman 9y ago
well since we're sharing anecdotes I have seen machines get upgraded at work.
working on a game. PVS calc took lots of memory and lots of time. Everyone's machines got a 6x upgrade in ram so they could be used at night to compute the PVS.
another anecdote. friend in another game found rebuilding assets on SSD was several X faster. Since the entire team was often waiting hours for asset builds to finish all machines got upgraded to have SSD.
this is especially true in GPU related fields. new gpus enable new things
- evilduck 9y agoI'm sure it happens in many industries, but my point is that I don't think it makes this an "amateur" computer. Plenty of professional employees will want one, get one, and will be completely unaffected by the design. Plenty of people will be on the other side of that too.