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That's some crazy powerful hardware, and would be a significant upgrade for most people. My main and only laptop (apart from some ancient ones) has a quadcore

That's some crazy powerful hardware, and would be a significant upgrade for most people. My main and only laptop (apart from some ancient ones) has a quadcore i5-8350U and 8GB RAM. (I kind of want to upgrade its RAM though) I also have a PC, that I upgraded to a Ryzen 7 5800 and 32GB RAM recently, but a few months ago it was an i7-4790K with 8GB RAM. Sure, 8GB RAM is quite little, but it's still within the mainstream. In laptops quad-core CPUs also only became mainstream in the last few years, let alone more than that. FWIW, I don't have any real performance issues with Jetbrains IDEs on either of my machines, but I don't use them much either as I don't like the convoluted user interface.

FpUser 4y ago
>"That's some crazy powerful hardware, and would be a significant upgrade for most people." I have my own company. Cost of this laptop goes as a business expense and is peanuts comparatively to revenue. >"Sure, 8GB RAM is quite little, but it's still within the mainstream." I've never cared about mainstream. Not in the industry and neither in private life. I do what works for me / my company and could not care less about what others do.
- ColonelPhantom 4y ago
  Congratulations? I'm not saying you need to care or whatever, I'm just saying you shouldn't dismiss people who do need to care for whatever reason. Great that you always have access to a computer with 64+ GB RAM, but not everyone is quite so lucky.
  - FpUser 4y ago
    Sorry for sounding cocky. I was responding to a "mainstream" part assuming you meant it as an usual industry norm that had nothing to do with what people can usually afford. I developed products for many orgs and had interacted with many of their programmers and from my experience they all had very decent salaries and absolutely shitty computers. Their orgs could definitely "splurge" for what I spent on that laptop without noticing much. As a matter of fact they spent more on their crappy hardware than I spent on mine due to their purchasing policies. From this point of view yes: I do not give a flying fuck about the norm. If it is about individual trying to make ends meet I have nothing but respect.

FpUser 4y ago

>"That's some crazy powerful hardware, and would be a significant upgrade for most people." I have my own company. Cost of this laptop goes as a business expense and is peanuts comparatively to revenue. >"Sure, 8GB RAM is quite little, but it's still within the mainstream." I've never cared about mainstream. Not in the industry and neither in private life. I do what works for me / my company and could not care less about what others do.

ColonelPhantom 4y ago
Congratulations? I'm not saying you need to care or whatever, I'm just saying you shouldn't dismiss people who do need to care for whatever reason. Great that you always have access to a computer with 64+ GB RAM, but not everyone is quite so lucky.
- FpUser 4y ago
  Sorry for sounding cocky. I was responding to a "mainstream" part assuming you meant it as an usual industry norm that had nothing to do with what people can usually afford. I developed products for many orgs and had interacted with many of their programmers and from my experience they all had very decent salaries and absolutely shitty computers. Their orgs could definitely "splurge" for what I spent on that laptop without noticing much. As a matter of fact they spent more on their crappy hardware than I spent on mine due to their purchasing policies. From this point of view yes: I do not give a flying fuck about the norm. If it is about individual trying to make ends meet I have nothing but respect.