Anyone who has worked with me or knows me will understand I have very little patience! This is probably my worst personality trait. I started to think about my day to day frustrations and what I can change and what I can’t.
Slow pc’s are an issue, wasting time waiting for a PC to perform an action is one thing that frustrates me enormously ! But I can change this! Buy a faster pc! (To be honest the above is just a justification to make me feel better about spending money on a new dev machine!)
I started to think about which programs I am running concurrently on a daily basis :- Visual Studio 2008 Pro, Re-Sharper, Visual SVN, SQL Server 2008 Standard, IIS 7, NHProf, Tweet Deck, Outlook, Word, Excel, VMware as well as others. Some of these programs are resource hungry and running them concurrently slows my current pc’s to a halt!
I need POWER. I need BIG BIG POWER! I need PORTABILITY! So without further adieu…….
Alienware M15x : Base Cosmic Black
Processor : Intel i7 720QM(1.60Ghz,6MB) Mobile CPU
Display : 15.6in Wide Full HD (1920 x 1080) WLED
Memory : 4096MB (2x2048) 1333MHz DDR3 Dual Channel
Hard Drive : 256GB Solid State Hard Drive
Optical Drive : Slot Load DVD+/-RW (DVD, CD read and write)
Graphics : 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce GT240M
Operating System : English Genuine Windows 7 Professional (64 BIT)
Please don’t take this as boastful! I am just really excited about my new dev machine and look forward to seeing how productive I can be with more power!
Please comment on the spec or even post a comment with the spec of your own machine for comparison. I would love this post to be a place for developers to visit to get an idea of the machine spec’s developers are using when developing on top of the .net framework.
Happy new year everyone!