At this point my dream development PC is anything that doesn't have the company mandated McAfee virus scanner and LANDesk spyware/inventory management software.

At this point my dream development PC is anything that doesn't have the company mandated McAfee virus scanner and LANDesk spyware/inventory management software. Although it would be nice to have the fastest harddrives, quickest processors, and most capacious memory, there are other things that prevent it from being useful. It's a shame that my relatively new "workstation-class" computer at work with 8 cores and 12GB RAM feels more sluggish than my three year old dual core PC at home.