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[nycphp-talk] developer's machine specs -- recomendations?

P. Ju (朱漢璇) pjlists at pobox.com
Mon Oct 19 09:20:51 EDT 2009


Buy a MacBook/MacBook Pro You will love it. I finally switched after
keeping an eye on them for many yrs. Should've switched sooner! You
get the best of both geek and user-friendly app worlds. I use
Microsoft Office for office tasks, and terminal shell to login to
remote servers or load up git source trees locally.

PJ

On 10/19/09, Ajai Khattri <ajai at bitblit.net> wrote:
>
> Ive been very happy with a dual-core box I built based on a Shuttle
> barebones kit (shuttle.com). They are very compact but capable machines.
>
> I think being able to run virtual machines is important for web developers
> so you'll want a box with a decent amount of RAM, maybe 4Gb. Also, two
> monitors is very useful, so maybe look at cards with dual-outputs.
>
> Remember disk is cheap. Memory is cheap. So if you're buying a prebuilt
> box, make sure the diak and memory upgrades aren't a tota' rip. (If they
> are and you still wanna buy, then buy a minimal spec and upgrade
> yourself).
>
>
> --
> Aj.
>
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