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Just curious as to what spec PCs people are using if you work in software/web development, and what kind of apps you have open the majority of the time.
The reason I ask is because my work pc is as follows:
Pentium 4 2.6 GHz (single core, no hyperthreading)
2/3 gig of ram.
The programs I have open 95% of the time are:
Eclipse development environment with lots of plugins.
JBoss service for running enterprise web apps (I run this through Eclipse).
Multiple internet explorer/windows explorer sessions
MS SQL analyzer
MS SQL profiler
Visual Studio 2005 (editing xml files).
I can't stress how damn slow this is - when starting JBoss my whole machine is crippled (100% cpu usage) for a whole 10 minutes. Windows restart takes ~10 mins (5 mins for all progs to exits, 5 mins to load everything). Internet explorer takes 10-15 seconds to open in some cases and so on.
I just wanted to see whether this kind of thing is the norm in companies? (some people have quad cores here, mines one of the, if not the slowest pc!).
For reference my home pc is an AMD X2 4400 (running stock at 2 gig), with 2 gig of G-Skill ram, DFI motherboard and so on - this is at *least* 2 years old and its 3-5 times faster than my work pc!
The reason I ask is because my work pc is as follows:
Pentium 4 2.6 GHz (single core, no hyperthreading)
2/3 gig of ram.
The programs I have open 95% of the time are:
Eclipse development environment with lots of plugins.
JBoss service for running enterprise web apps (I run this through Eclipse).
Multiple internet explorer/windows explorer sessions
MS SQL analyzer
MS SQL profiler
Visual Studio 2005 (editing xml files).
I can't stress how damn slow this is - when starting JBoss my whole machine is crippled (100% cpu usage) for a whole 10 minutes. Windows restart takes ~10 mins (5 mins for all progs to exits, 5 mins to load everything). Internet explorer takes 10-15 seconds to open in some cases and so on.
I just wanted to see whether this kind of thing is the norm in companies? (some people have quad cores here, mines one of the, if not the slowest pc!).
For reference my home pc is an AMD X2 4400 (running stock at 2 gig), with 2 gig of G-Skill ram, DFI motherboard and so on - this is at *least* 2 years old and its 3-5 times faster than my work pc!