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Quad Core (~3GHz), 64-bit, 4Gb RAM.
I don't need a lot of power, but running VMs can slow things down, especially if it's a Windows 7 guest. Upping the RAM to 8Gb would probably help, but would mostly be a waste.
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On my workstation I have an i5 at 3.1Ghz It was upgraded from 4 to 8 GBs of memory...well what can I say the speed increase was significant. With 4GB of memory most of the time 3GB was used and at this point I saw that Windows 7 was dramatically slow (it hasn't done any swapping), I really don't understand why. The same thing happens if I have 6.5 - 7GB used out of 8. Have you noticed similar issues ?
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The biggest speed up I saw for Virtual Machines was adding an additional HDD separate from my Windows drive. I have a Raid 5 with 3 500GB drives, but VMs were slow. Added a separate (fourth) 500GB drive for virtual machines and they are significantly faster! Now if my machine only supported more HDDs.....
Hogan
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Yes, a separate HDD would help too.
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XTAL256 wrote: Satisfied, but more wouldn't hurt
Is that what she's trying to get you to believe???
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011 ----- Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach ----- Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo! ----- Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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- That's what SHE said.
- Yes. Yes it is.
Greetings - Jacek
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Now that I've joined a new company I've got a shiny new i7 laptop with 8Gb of RAM which will do nicely for me. It's even a tad better than my laptop at home. Very happy with it at the moment. VS2010 with loads of extensions and ReSharper works just fine.
Previously I've worked at a multinational global IT services provider, a fortune 500 company who saw fit to equip me with a Core Duo with 2Gb of memory with a tendency to overheat for no apparent reason and send me off to do SharePoint 2010 development with that steaming heap of crap.
A word of warning to anyone doing SP2010 work on a virtual machine - you'll need to provision at least 4Gb memory to the VM or you'll be waiting 5 minutes for a context menu to appear, something that didn't overtly concern the management too much despite most of my working day consisting of letting go of the mouse and waiting..
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Just not very fast
Unless you're talking about my computer at home which is an overpowered gaming beast!... Two years ago
It runs Visual Studio like a charm, but I can't play all the newest games on ultra high settings anymore...
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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Until recently, when it died, I ran a dual-processor Xeon 2GB HP box, now I run a 4GB Dual core.
I try to run a development machine that is a bit lower spec than the client will run the app on deliberately, so that I know if it is fast enough on my PC, it will be easily fast enough on theirs.
And that is what is important - that the customer is happy, not me!
And then they pay me. And I'm happy!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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If you are using Eclipse then anything less than a super computer is not good...
If you are using Visual Studio 2010 then a mainframe is the minimum...
I just wish the platform companies would profile and optimize their products for us mere mortals!
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
If the final destination is death, then we should enjoy every second of the journey.
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Did the Celerons get reclassified as mainframes now? My home PC is a dual core Celeron and I do a significant bit of Visual Studio development work on it and it isn't too slow. I want it faster but won't be hitting it with a hammer yet.
My work PC is a Quad Core i5 though with 4GB RAM laptop. Which is more than adequate, thank you!
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... all of the Anti-Virus and Network Security Software services are started.
All of my software is powered by a single Watt.
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...and Google update. I have tried to remove this junk recently from my laptop. It was setup as:
1. a scheduled task
2. a service
3. an autostart tray app
4. a stand-alone application which also needed to be uninstalled
5. add-in to a browser
and maybe more, but I didn't find more places.
Greetings - Jacek
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