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Hi Allen

Two must-read's from Linus Torvalds and Jeff Atwood about SSD's:

http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-i-got-one-of-new-intel-ssds.html
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001304.html

That's my next upgrade!

Rada Varshavskaya


On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 21:24, <talk-request at lists.nyphp.org> wrote:

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> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:50:30 -0500
> From: Allen Shaw <allen at TwoMiceAndAStrawberry.com>
> To: NYPHP Talk <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
> Subject: [nycphp-talk] developer's machine specs -- recomendations?
> Message-ID: <4ADBB7D6.8070202 at TwoMiceAndAStrawberry.com>
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> 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"
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