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>Computers are extremely cheap. Before personal computers I'd >have to buy very expensive manufacturing machine to provide >such value with so little work. Tha
by nsoonhui 17y ago
>Computers are extremely cheap. Before personal computers I'd >have to buy very expensive manufacturing machine to provide >such value with so little work.
That's because you not living in a third world country. In a third world country one brand new dell laptop ( not very high end one) can easily cost as much as the salary of a programmer.
- Retric 17y agoCheep programmers = buy cheep PC's. You can get a lot of HW for 300$. Edit: Ok, I understand the downvotes, but I spent a lot of time developing on HW far worse than what 300$ can buy you today. From dell: Starting Price $269 Windows AMD Sempron™ LE-1300 (2.3GHz, 800MHz, 512KB) 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz 320GB4 Serial ATA Hard Drive PS: I would still suggest 2 x 17+" monitors but those are not that expencive.
- scotty79 17y agoMaybe you are being downvoted for spelling cheap as cheep or maybe some programmers feel offended by your "cheap programmers" that sounds degrading. "Less affluent programmers can buy cheaper PC's" sounds better.
- scotty79 17y agoIn my country (that fortunately is not third world but also not the first world exactly) I can buy decent (not high end) computer for my monthly developer earnings and I consider this to be really cheap. There is no other machine so cheap that could provide me with way to produce so much value.