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If you're a developer, you should have the best development gears you can afford. This is true if you're doing heavy 3D rendering. For those of us doing anythi
by mildtrepidation 13y ago
If you're a developer, you should have the best development gears you can afford.
This is true if you're doing heavy 3D rendering. For those of us doing anything from web to kernel development, it's almost certainly overkill.
I've been running years behind in hardware for over a decade; my workstation certainly isn't slow, but it doesn't take a lot to run Python interpreters and web servers; Eclipse is pretty heavy, but even a high-end dual core or low-end quad core with a couple gigs of RAM will handle it well.
Having more power than you need to work comfortably isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it is in many cases pointless, and unless you're making money hand over fist or using your rig(s) for something else that's intensive (like high end gaming), it's an unnecessary expenditure that just doesn't make much sense. At some point all you're doing is hurting your own bottom line (and that of your company, if you have one).
- xradionut 13y agoI disagree. You can use the extra computation power, DRAM and drive space when you do complex data analysis or run virtualization. I can either run huge data sets or have multiple VMs running to simulate various server configurations and test cases without having additional physical gear. And this is on a beefy commodity laptop that costs less than most Apple gear.
- teemujin 13y agoand if you need that.. you ask...and the team leaders pony up... right? I still don't understand the frustration with that particular comment... its like you want to hate on someone for not using a beefier machine...do you think my development skill suck because I don't have the latest greatest? I can model all your virtual machines on my Amazon clusters online..and I model plenty of them locally just fine with Vagrant already. Is that ok with you?
- xradionut 13y agoI think you handicap yourself by not having "decent" equipment. I don't run expensive gear, it's at the right price/performance point to do the job. I guarantee you that I spend less than most folk realize. As for spinning up Amazon clusters, that's fine when you don't have to care about company/clients data security. We live in the post NSA revelation world and if you connect from overseas, your security is null and void.
- teemujin 13y ago:? Im sorry to hear that you think everyone and everything is being raided by the NSA and that my Amazon clusters are null and void...and that my 5yr old Macbook is a bad price/performance ratio for the job...I'll call you when I need to configure my next machine to be sure I get the best advice.. tanks.
- teemujin 13y ago;) exactly.