Cheers guys. Sounds like SSD is a must. I was planning on a dual drive setup with an SSD + a capacity disk.
Any opinions on memory? DDR3 looks like the latest and greatest. Any realworld observations on the difference between say 4 and 8 GB? On Nov 22, 2:10 pm, Dave Patterson <dave.patterson.bris...@googlemail.com> wrote: > My workhorse PC has passed the end of it's upgrade life so I'm in the > market for a new machine. I'm running ubuntu at the moment and I'd > like to keep it that way. I consider myself a generalist but most of > my day-to-day work is java and JEE. I don't mind doing a home build if > that's going to get me some extra grunt but I'm way out of the loop on > current thinking. Do the posse group folks have any opinions on the > current sweet spots for CPU, disk and memory + any pitfalls or > bargains I should look out for? > > Thanks in advance. > > Dave Patterson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.