| 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 think you hit the nail with the need for VMs really, the best way to work with multiple OSes or environments at once is to have a powerful PC. I very much agree that you don't need a powerful PC to do the coding, but you'd need a reasonably updated PC to test the codes or PC powerful enough to run multiple VMs to make your life easier as you brought up.
