Dell took a month and a half to deliver my last laptop. I wasn't happy with that, couldn't care less about their excuses. T.
-----Original Message----- From: Leah Garrett Sent: Tuesday, 25 January 2011 1:29 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Developer PC spec Thanks for the spec and the background with the choices. Will help when I submit the quote. I have had good experience with Dell when dealing with them in previous jobs. They seem like a good choice. Thanks for all the tips! From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Corneliu I. Tusnea Sent: Tuesday, 25 January 2011 12:49 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Developer PC spec I have priced a desktop for 10 years but as general rules: * Go 8Gb ram (at least) * W7 x64 (don't even consider x32 anymore) * 120Gb+ SSD as your primary drive. Make sure you never hit 50% disk space usage as performance slowly drops. * Secondary HDD 7200rpm or 10.000rpm. Don't touch rust @5400rpm as it's as good as dead. * Create a 1Gb RAM Drive (free with http://www.dataram.com/ software). Move all your temp folders, compilation and asp.net<http://asp.net> temp files in there * Have your VMs on the separate HDD Corneliu. PS>> I'd go for Dells. And get the 3 year next day on site support. They rock and when they don't they get fixed quickly. On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Bill McCarthy <bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au<mailto:bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au>> wrote: Win 7 x64. BTW: It's interesting to note that some motherboard manufacturers such as ASUS, consider x86 as good as dead. For example some of the new ASUS mb's come with uEFI instead of classic bios, and it's all 64 bit and they only list 64 bit OS's as supported. Of course as developers, given how cheap RAM is we all want to be running x64 anyway to get past that <4GB limit. |-----Original Message----- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-<mailto:ozdotnet-> |boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:boun...@ozdotnet.com>] On Behalf Of Leah Garrett |Sent: Monday, 24 January 2011 12:19 PM |To: 'ozDotNet' |Subject: RE: Developer PC spec | |SSD drive as primary drive sounds like a great idea! | |From what I have read, it would definitely give the dramatic improvement I am |looking for with this new PC. | | | |Which OS do you suggest? | | | | |-----Original Message----- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-<mailto:ozdotnet-> |boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:boun...@ozdotnet.com>] On Behalf Of Bill McCarthy |Sent: Monday, 24 January 2011 12:09 PM |To: 'ozDotNet' |Subject: RE: Developer PC spec | |Absolutely !! Load times are significantly better. Just bought a new OZX drive |the other day (mainly for VM's) | ||-----Original Message----- ||From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-<mailto:ozdotnet-> ||boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:boun...@ozdotnet.com>] On Behalf Of Stephen Price ||Sent: Monday, 24 January 2011 12:04 PM ||To: ozDotNet ||Subject: Re: Developer PC spec || ||Are people going with SSD hard drives for their desktop machines these days? ||(not just laptop drives) || || ||On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Wallace Turner <w.tur...@fex.com.au<mailto:w.tur...@fex.com.au>> ||wrote: || || || This is my summary from msinfo32. I upgraded by buying just the ||cpu/ram/mboard. This cost $800 about 6 months ago. || Insist on an SSD for your primary (OS) drive. || || || || || || On 24/01/2011 8:22 AM, Leah Garrett wrote: || || || || Has anyone spec’ed out a new developer PC recently? Or got any ||advice? || || || || We have a new IT team so I am now able to upgrade my PC! I ||will also be getting an MSDN subscription and will be able to choose my OS. || || || || || || Current setup is Windows XP on an older PC. I develop web sites ||that run on Windows 2003 server. On my desktop I usually run || || · Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition || || · SQL Server Management Studio || || · Paint .Net (although I would also install Adobe Creative ||Suite on the new machine) || || · Remote Desktop to development server always open and ||to live server occasionally || || · Multiple browsers with dev tools installed || || · Microsoft Virtual PC for cross browser testing || || || || My preference would be to have a specification that would a ||significant upgrade without scaring the guy who has to authorize the purchase ||(he has not told me how much I can spend). || || || || || || Cheers, || 8-) || || Leah Garrett || || Web Developer || || || || D'FINE/CREATIVE:-D || || 42-44 Stephenson Street Richmond VIC 3121 || || Phone: (03) 8561 7474 Direct: (03) 8561 7472 || || E: leah.garr...@dfine.com.au<mailto:leah.garr...@dfine.com.au> ||<mailto:your.n...@dfine.com.au<mailto:your.n...@dfine.com.au>> || || || || || || || || -- || Wallace Turner | General Manager IT || FEX | • 61 2 8024 5200 • 61 2 8024 5234 | | • w.tur...@fex.com.au<mailto:w.tur...@fex.com.au> • ||www.fex.com.au<http://www.fex.com.au> || || || This correspondence is for the named person's use only. It may contain ||confidential or legally privileged information or both. || No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. ||If you receive this correspondence in error, please || immediately delete it from your system and notify the sender. You must ||not disclose, copy or rely on any part of this || correspondence if you are not the intended recipient. || | [The entire original message is not included.]
