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Old 04-17-2009, 06:23 PM   #2672
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Originally Posted by LazyScot View Post
Why on earth don't all software developers and testers (at the very least of a certain, well known company) have to use ridiculously old computers. I fail to understand why it takes so long on PCs running their software.
Now that is a valid but entirely different issue. We do run our software on older computers to do performance metrics. Something that shows up on a slower machine that won't on a fast machine.

But, when I am building and compiling the software and running automated functional tests I need to fastest that I can have so I am more productive. If I have to wait 5,10,20 minutes during each edit/compile/build cycle I can't be very productive. Also, profiling on a faster machine runs alot faster, but I can still see if a loop or something is taking a high percentage of time relatively I know where I need to optimize.

That said, today's customers demand applications that are very graphic and network and hard drive intense. They don't want to do "batch" processing they want it to happen now. Many times the answer is, get a faster machine.

Back to my rant... I am not talking about some $3000 PC these days. Your basic off the shelf $500-$800 PC with a Core 2 Duo 2.66+Ghz machine with a 500GB 7200RPM 3Gbs SATA hard drive is more than enough for the work I am talking about.

The machine I am ranting about is a P4 1.7GHz with 512MB of RAM running Windows 2000 Workstation. Really? There is no need for this PC to be plugged in... except that they don't give us something better.

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