NYCPHP Meetup

[Eddie Drapkin]

I'd personally spend $400 or $500 of that budget on two nice, large
21" or larger monitors and then build a "budget" PC.  With the
remaining $500 or so, you can put together a decent quad core system:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5226067&CatId=333
+ 2 of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009157
you'd spend well less than a thousand dollars and have a pretty decent
system.

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Allen Shaw
<allen at twomiceandastrawberry.com> wrote:
> Who here is happy with their current development machine?  Would you care to
> share your hardware specs?
>
> I'm looking to upgrade my 7-year old desktop for something with a little
> more snap.  Hopefully under $1000, but it's been ages since I shopped
> prices, so clue me in if I'm naive.
>
> For context: This is for full-time web app development primarily in PHP,
> running some flavor of Linux.  Essentially no graphic design work at all.
>  Desktop or laptop, I'm indifferent.
> For the most part I've been fine with my current setup, but I recently
> started using a framework which, for all I can do to it, takes 10 and 15
> seconds to render a page on this machine. I've finally decided just to throw
> hardware at it.  Page-load times are unnoticeable on my rented hosting
> servers, so I can't really blame the framework.  On this machine, when I'm
> loading pages all day trying "this way" or "that way", those 15-second page
> loads add up pretty fast.
>
> I'd love to hear any advice on what makes a good web developer's machine.
>  At this point I don't have a lot of places to ask, other than vendors
> who'll just sell me as much as they can con me into.
>
> Thanks,
> Allen
>
> --
> Allen Shaw
> TwoMiceAndAStrawberry.com
>
> "Data Management, Web Applications, and the Meaning of Life"
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List
> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
>
> http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
>