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HappySqurriel on 24 July 2010
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Foamer said:
HappySqurriel said:

Just as a side note, as a software developer myself I find the comments about needing a more powerful PC as a developer to be somewhat odd. If your code is well modularized only a small portion will need to be recompiled while you’re working on it, and the productivity gain from jumping from a high-end Pentium 4 to a bleeding edge system is fairly minimal.

Now I can understand justifying a higher end PC because of your job because it is what I am going to do, but there is really no need for one. Personally, I’m intending to create a system to run vmware systems on top of; and one of the VM machines would be for a development environment, a couple would be for staging, a few would be for testing, and another would be for web-surfing and email, and (about) the only thing I would do on the base system is gaming.

I take it you've never tried running SQL Server 2005/08/10 and Visual Studio 2005/08/10 on a P4? I have and it's complete shite.

As for justifying a higher end PC, mine was distinctly middle of the range when I bought it.


When I started out as a developer, I ran SQL Server (2000 IIRC) on a Pentium 3 while still running visual studio ...