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In my opinion there is only one answer to this question for anyone doing development: Buy the fastest non-extreme consumer intel processor, right now thats 6700k, add at least 16gb of ram, 1 mid-size ssd, 2x 4tb drives in raid. If you want to do any kind of GPU work add the fastest or second fastest consumer nvidia card, like the 1080 or 1070. If you want to game get a second ssd and install windows on it. It goes wi…
Last year I spent $400 to upgrade the motherboard, got a 5th gen i7, 32GB RAM, a GTX 950, and 6 more TB of storage (2 HDD and 1 SSD). Yay Newegg and microcenter sales!
I've never had an issue with any of the hardware, my build times are miniscule (MBP chokes on some of the stuff I compile), and I could have 10+ projects open in Android Studio / Intellij, 20 tabs in chrome, a terminal emulator, docker, and Plex, and it doesn't break a sweat.
If you don't need to be mobile that often, I'd definitely go desktop.
So here are the reasons why I personally like having a desktop. * Quiet under full load. Can actually run jobs overnight in my bedroom (e.g. rendering, machine learning). * Frees up space from the desk. Better for ergonomics if you set things up right. * Can have more memory for memory-intensive things (VMs, rendering, machine learning, etc). * Slightly cheaper for the performance. In return, you sacrifice portabilit…
> How do you automatically shift everything over? I'd like to know if there's an easy solution for this as well. I have a laptop and a desktop that I snagged at a university auction [1], both with Ubuntu. I keep a portion of my work in Dropbox, but I'd really like to build a "local network dropbox equivalent" for large directories. I don't have the knowledge to do so. [1]: http://www.publicsurplus.com/
In my opinion there is only one answer to this question for anyone doing development: Buy the fastest non-extreme consumer intel processor, right now thats 6700k, add at least 16gb of ram, 1 mid-size ssd, 2x 4tb drives in raid. If you want to do any kind of GPU work add the fastest or second fastest consumer nvidia card, like the 1080 or 1070. If you want to game get a second ssd and install windows on it. It goes wi…
8tb sounds too much for just development.
In my opinion there is only one answer to this question for anyone doing development: Buy the fastest non-extreme consumer intel processor, right now thats 6700k, add at least 16gb of ram, 1 mid-size ssd, 2x 4tb drives in raid. If you want to do any kind of GPU work add the fastest or second fastest consumer nvidia card, like the 1080 or 1070. If you want to game get a second ssd and install windows on it. It goes wi…
NVMe
if you need a desktop, these are tempting https://www.amazon.com/Intel-NUC-Kit-NUC6i7KYK-Mini/dp/B01DJ...
If you're going to get a desktop, get an Intel NUC. The hardware is Linux friendly and the format factor can't be beat. There's just about every range of $ vs CPU so whatever you want to spend you'll find one. Not sure how much the € exchange would impact things but in $ it'd be about $3-400 for a nice setup and $5-600 for a very nice setup (great CPU, 32GB ram, m.2 SSD etc).
https://www.amazon.com/Intel-NUC-Kit-NUC6i7KYK-Mini/dp/B01DJ...
In my opinion there is only one answer to this question for anyone doing development: Buy the fastest non-extreme consumer intel processor, right now thats 6700k, add at least 16gb of ram, 1 mid-size ssd, 2x 4tb drives in raid. If you want to do any kind of GPU work add the fastest or second fastest consumer nvidia card, like the 1080 or 1070. If you want to game get a second ssd and install windows on it. It goes wi…
This is exactly what I did. For $1200 I have a Manjaro/Windows box along with a Chromebook running Lubuntu. My desktop runs at 4k resolution and my chromebook has over 10 hours of battery life
I built my desktop box three years ago and coupled it with a 449 50" 4k monitor, and am still on a four or five year old laptop.
I see now that the 7700k is 23% faster than the 4770k I built my box with. 23% improvement in bzip2 time is worth it to me.
It's great bang for the buck,
In my opinion there is only one answer to this question for anyone doing development: Buy the fastest non-extreme consumer intel processor, right now thats 6700k, add at least 16gb of ram, 1 mid-size ssd, 2x 4tb drives in raid. If you want to do any kind of GPU work add the fastest or second fastest consumer nvidia card, like the 1080 or 1070. If you want to game get a second ssd and install windows on it. It goes wi…
8tb sounds too much for just development.
Why not buy the biggest disk that fits in the space your case and sata cables will support?
All that I am proposing is a maxed out micro-atx case -- it only costs about ~1200
In my opinion there is only one answer to this question for anyone doing development: Buy the fastest non-extreme consumer intel processor, right now thats 6700k, add at least 16gb of ram, 1 mid-size ssd, 2x 4tb drives in raid. If you want to do any kind of GPU work add the fastest or second fastest consumer nvidia card, like the 1080 or 1070. If you want to game get a second ssd and install windows on it. It goes wi…
Surely it goes without saying that one should install whatever OS they want to on the first SSD? Why is Linux mandatory?
I can't tolerate extra 100ms (on my frontend work, compile SCSS.. JavaScript..etc)