My boss finally lets me pick the specs and the vendor for a developer machine and for now his only limitations are:
1) no more than $3700
2) must have at least 2 years full warranty (can't cost us anything to fix if something breaks.)
As I will most likely have to be upgrading this thing piecemeal in 3 years since it will be 5 before they let me buy another new one, my specs are:
1) massive processing power, I am a power user and I run this thing harder than I do my gaming machine. I'll have power point, compilers, remote logins, video conferencing, sql sever, several vendor specific web apps that love munching cpu cycles, and half of macromedia studio open.
Yes all at the same time, people rarely give me time to shutdown anything (I started this message almost 3 hours ago) before I help them. As I write this message firefox has 5 tabs open, I've got 8 IE windows open, outlook, woord, about half a dozen other random apps and sql server running in the background. I wish I could wait for quad core but no time now I'll be locked in for at least 3 years).
2) must be able to connect to 2 or more monitors a high resolutions (I've got 20" monitors that max out at 1280x1024 and I'm running out of screen space on a regular basis).
3) must not use onboard video (shoot me pls)
4) The case must be big enough that when the warranty runs out I can shove a full sized mb in there and not have to deal with a propietary solution (coworkers who have another year are finding out to their chargin they can't even sneak in a video card upgrade because of the mb config and case size).
5) minimum 2 GB of ram and be upgradable for more
6) 10k rpm start up drive (my home raptors have spoiled me)
7) 250 GB secondary drive.
8) wireless keyboard and mouse.
9) dvd burner
This thing is used for everything from websurfing, to heavy coding, to graphic editing (it doesn't need to make coffee, but that would be a plus while I listen to my CDs 😀 ).
I'm looking for multiple vendor and machine ideas in hopes that one will get past the bean counters.
1) no more than $3700
2) must have at least 2 years full warranty (can't cost us anything to fix if something breaks.)
As I will most likely have to be upgrading this thing piecemeal in 3 years since it will be 5 before they let me buy another new one, my specs are:
1) massive processing power, I am a power user and I run this thing harder than I do my gaming machine. I'll have power point, compilers, remote logins, video conferencing, sql sever, several vendor specific web apps that love munching cpu cycles, and half of macromedia studio open.
Yes all at the same time, people rarely give me time to shutdown anything (I started this message almost 3 hours ago) before I help them. As I write this message firefox has 5 tabs open, I've got 8 IE windows open, outlook, woord, about half a dozen other random apps and sql server running in the background. I wish I could wait for quad core but no time now I'll be locked in for at least 3 years).
2) must be able to connect to 2 or more monitors a high resolutions (I've got 20" monitors that max out at 1280x1024 and I'm running out of screen space on a regular basis).
3) must not use onboard video (shoot me pls)
4) The case must be big enough that when the warranty runs out I can shove a full sized mb in there and not have to deal with a propietary solution (coworkers who have another year are finding out to their chargin they can't even sneak in a video card upgrade because of the mb config and case size).
5) minimum 2 GB of ram and be upgradable for more
6) 10k rpm start up drive (my home raptors have spoiled me)
7) 250 GB secondary drive.
8) wireless keyboard and mouse.
9) dvd burner
This thing is used for everything from websurfing, to heavy coding, to graphic editing (it doesn't need to make coffee, but that would be a plus while I listen to my CDs 😀 ).
I'm looking for multiple vendor and machine ideas in hopes that one will get past the bean counters.
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