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> Performance of the computer is quite important for me. I'm an Android developer, compilation of a big project I'm working on takes enormous amount of RAM and
by GiorgioG 9y ago
> Performance of the computer is quite important for me. I'm an Android developer, compilation of a big project I'm working on takes enormous amount of RAM and CPU nowadays (with new Android Studio it's even worse).
Buy a powerful desktop PC and you’ll have a few bucks left over. Seriously, I don’t understand why developers continue to shortchange themselves by using laptops for heavy workloads. If you have to work away from your office, Remote Desktop to your desktop machine from your old laptop.
- atomicrat2552 9y agoThis implies your orgamization allows remote desktop
- scarface74 9y agoThe original poster said price is important to him - implying that he is buying this for himself. If I were buying a development machine for myself for under $2K, I would get the cheapest 27" 5K iMac with 16GB of RAM - quad core i5 3.4Ghz. Why futz with Linux for development when you get an iMac? You get the benefits of not having to deal with Linux and the oddities Of HiDPI support and you get a Unix environment (OS X is certified Unix). I would probably spend $2600 to get 32GB RAM and 2TB fusion drive.
- fshafique 9y agoTechnically, he could even get an AWS WorkSpaces account and run his entire dev environment in the cloud, and continue using his existing laptop, tablet, or phone to remote in.
- Cacti 9y ago1. Not everyone can remote in due to security reasons. 2. Not everyone can remote in due to crappy upstream bandwidth or latency. 3. Even if they can, not everyone is pulling enough FPS to make it reasonable, depending on the type of work they are doing.