Yay! new PC upgrades at work ....

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My office bought like 4x Core 2 Duo E8500/E8400 PC's this week 2nd-hand, with 4GB RAM and dedicated graphics cards (for Dual DVI / DVI + HDMI) for ~R2k, seeing that most of us don't require such monster PC's for development work.

Eish, that was the CPU (E8400) that was available when I got my last pc, almost 3 years ago now I think...

The whole point of i5, i7 is that they're better for multitasking, which is what I reckon developers that run a lot of apps like me need.

 

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My office bought like 4x Core 2 Duo E8500/E8400 PC's this week 2nd-hand, with 4GB RAM and dedicated graphics cards (for Dual DVI / DVI + HDMI) for ~R2k, seeing that most of us don't require such monster PC's for development work.

What development programs do you use?

This is what I have on my on my Core 2 Duo P8600 with 2GB DDR2. I can hardly open VS 2005 with SQL Server 2005.

• SQL Server 2005/2008 (not client)
• Oracle client (Toad/PL SQL Developer)
• VS 2008
• PostGres
• MYSQL
• Netbeans
• Apache HTTP Serve
• IIS
• Couple of chrome/firefox
• MS Outlook 2003
• Some couple of MS Office apps
• Some virtual machines

They are upgrading to i5 650, 4GB, Win 7 32bit.

I would have opted for i7 2600, Win 7 64, and at least 8GB RAM.

My own new rig (haven't bought it yet) at home will probably have 16GB (hope it won't be overkill) but I mostly multitask on all those programs for all the applications I'm supporting.

 

[Pada]

Most of the guys here are programming Java/PHP in NetBeans 6.9.1 in Ubuntu 10.04 / Windows XP.
None of them actually run any services on their PC. We don't use develop in any applications for Microsoft Windows, so we're using NetBeans/some IDE on MAC for our C/Obj C apps.

I'm the only one who is running services (MySQL & Tomcat) and Virtual Machines on my desktop PC, which is why I'm the only one who has a Core i7 860 + 8GB RAM + 30GB SSD, instead of Core2Duo E7xxx/E8xxx + 4GB RAM.

16GB of RAM is overkill, unless you're actually running out of 8GB memory! I've ran out of 8GB of RAM, but that was just due to a silly mistake in my code, which wrote a 4GB+ log file to my RAM drive