computers

[kyillee]

So it is that time at work when we can put in requests for new computer hardware. All I know is my current work machine is, I believe, from before when I started in 2003 and it's getting to where it just isn't adaquate for what I need it to do

Comments

[cosyne]

not really sure. i had to beat people severely to get my current laptop, and it still has issuez. one suggestion is to just go to the dell business site and see what $1500 buys you.
If you're just updating components, you want to figure out what the bottlenecks are for your compile. Maybe IT will loan you some ram and you can see if that helps. If you need a faster harddrive, you may just want a new computer with SATA. If it's just HD space you're concerned about, 300GB should be <$100 nowadays.
and if you wanted to clean stuff off your drive, you could probably fit all your personal stuff on a cheap USB drive. I've started trying to keep personal crap off my work computer so that when they fire me i won't have to go copy all the stuff over ;-)

[jminnis]

At work, I have:
Dual dualcore Opteron
4 GB of RAM
500 GB RAID array (redundancy in some form)
A leetle monitor.

If you use Visual Studio 2005, you get surprisingly close to dividing compile times by the number of cores. I don't know if your help compiler will work in parallel.

[sipperphoto]

I got my Laptop towards the end of last summer... I'm rocking this:

AMD Turion(TM) 64 ML-40 (2.2GHz/1MB L2 Cache)
- 128MB ATI RADEON(R) XPRESS 200M w/Hypermemory(TM)
- 2.0GB DDR SDRAM (2x1024MB)
- 120 GB 4200 RPM Hard Drive
- 54g(TM) 802.11a/b/g WLAN & Bluetooth

It's pretty fast. I basically had it built by HP, and maxed out anything I could RAM, and HD wise. I'm doing a lot of photoshop stuff, and some web design. And I have it networked with my desktop upstairs.

Jeff

[mentalflossboy]

Figure you should go for at least dual core (Intel Core 2 Duo). Hard drive space and RAM are actually pretty cheap right now, so it shouldn't be hard to get >100GB of disk space and >=1GB RAM.

[dsparklingb]

Not up to date on the CPU stuff, but your RAM and HDD does look like it should get some upgrade!

I should think at least 1-2G RAM and >80G HDD is minimal. =)