Quick Survey - What workstations are Grails developers using?

[Christopher Kwiatkowski]

I have always wondered this and have never asked.

What computers are you using for development work?

My very modest workstation:

Toshiba Satellite L655D

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Processor: AMD Phenom II N660 Dual-Core Processor - 3.00Ghz

Memory: 4GB

I have a 23" Acer Monitor that I plug into when I sit down in my office.

I want to upgrade to a new laptop or a desktop and want to see what the grails programmers out there are using for their development work.  

Sorry for the off-topic post!

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[Sebastian Gozin]

I'd not be surprised if there's a large batch of Macbook Pro users.

To answer more thoroughly, I think what you want these days is lot's of memory and fast disk io.

Beyond that take the system you find most comfortable.

On 15 Jun 2012, at 19:33, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I have always wondered this and have never asked.

What computers are you using for development work?

My very modest workstation:

Toshiba Satellite L655D

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Processor: AMD Phenom II N660 Dual-Core Processor - 3.00Ghz

Memory: 4GB

I have a 23" Acer Monitor that I plug into when I sit down in my office.

I want to upgrade to a new laptop or a desktop and want to see what the grails programmers out there are using for their development work.  

Sorry for the off-topic post!

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[Christopher Kwiatkowski]

I see those bitten apples on the desks of all the suites in our building. 

I am definitely going with an SSD on this next machine and at least 8GB of memory.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Sebastian Gozin <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'd not be surprised if there's a large batch of Macbook Pro users.

To answer more thoroughly, I think what you want these days is lot's of memory and fast disk io.

Beyond that take the system you find most comfortable.

On 15 Jun 2012, at 19:33, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I have always wondered this and have never asked.

What computers are you using for development work?

My very modest workstation:

Toshiba Satellite L655D

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Processor: AMD Phenom II N660 Dual-Core Processor - 3.00Ghz

Memory: 4GB

I have a 23" Acer Monitor that I plug into when I sit down in my office.

I want to upgrade to a new laptop or a desktop and want to see what the grails programmers out there are using for their development work.  

Sorry for the off-topic post!

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[Gustavo T. Ludwig]

A decent amount of L2 (or even L3) cache wouldn't hurt either...

On 06/15/2012 03:23 PM, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I see those bitten apples on the desks of all the suites in our building. 

I am definitely going with an SSD on this next machine and at least 8GB of memory.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Sebastian Gozin <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'd not be surprised if there's a large batch of Macbook Pro users.

To answer more thoroughly, I think what you want these days is lot's of memory and fast disk io.

Beyond that take the system you find most comfortable.

On 15 Jun 2012, at 19:33, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I have always wondered this and have never asked.

What computers are you using for development work?

My very modest workstation:

Toshiba Satellite L655D

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Processor: AMD Phenom II N660 Dual-Core Processor - 3.00Ghz

Memory: 4GB

I have a 23" Acer Monitor that I plug into when I sit down in my office.

I want to upgrade to a new laptop or a desktop and want to see what the grails programmers out there are using for their development work.  

Sorry for the off-topic post!

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[owen Rubel]

I got a Linux laptop from a GREAT shop in Berkeley called Zareason (zareason.com). They make their own drivers, test their equipment and release everything back to the community but everything runs great out of the box. I can run Flash, play videos, DVD's, music and even run Wine and play Warcraft... not to mention do development :)

I cannot recommend these guys enough if you live in the Bay Area. And if you don't, shipping takes a while but the machine is well worth it.

Owen Rubel

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Gustavo Tomazi Ludwig <[hidden email]> wrote:

A decent amount of L2 (or even L3) cache wouldn't hurt either...

On 06/15/2012 03:23 PM, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I see those bitten apples on the desks of all the suites in our building. 

I am definitely going with an SSD on this next machine and at least 8GB of memory.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Sebastian Gozin <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'd not be surprised if there's a large batch of Macbook Pro users.

To answer more thoroughly, I think what you want these days is lot's of memory and fast disk io.

Beyond that take the system you find most comfortable.

On 15 Jun 2012, at 19:33, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I have always wondered this and have never asked.

What computers are you using for development work?

My very modest workstation:

Toshiba Satellite L655D

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Processor: AMD Phenom II N660 Dual-Core Processor - 3.00Ghz

Memory: 4GB

I have a 23" Acer Monitor that I plug into when I sit down in my office.

I want to upgrade to a new laptop or a desktop and want to see what the grails programmers out there are using for their development work.  

Sorry for the off-topic post!

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[Christopher Kwiatkowski]

Thanks!  I dual boot my machines and have always used some version of Linux for most of my development work.  Things just always seem to run faster on Linux.

I will definitely check out zareason.

Best,

- C

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Owen Rubel <[hidden email]> wrote:

I got a Linux laptop from a GREAT shop in Berkeley called Zareason (zareason.com). They make their own drivers, test their equipment and release everything back to the community but everything runs great out of the box. I can run Flash, play videos, DVD's, music and even run Wine and play Warcraft... not to mention do development :)

I cannot recommend these guys enough if you live in the Bay Area. And if you don't, shipping takes a while but the machine is well worth it.

Owen Rubel

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Gustavo Tomazi Ludwig <[hidden email]> wrote:

A decent amount of L2 (or even L3) cache wouldn't hurt either...

On 06/15/2012 03:23 PM, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I see those bitten apples on the desks of all the suites in our building. 

I am definitely going with an SSD on this next machine and at least 8GB of memory.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Sebastian Gozin <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'd not be surprised if there's a large batch of Macbook Pro users.

To answer more thoroughly, I think what you want these days is lot's of memory and fast disk io.

Beyond that take the system you find most comfortable.

On 15 Jun 2012, at 19:33, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I have always wondered this and have never asked.

What computers are you using for development work?

My very modest workstation:

Toshiba Satellite L655D

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Processor: AMD Phenom II N660 Dual-Core Processor - 3.00Ghz

Memory: 4GB

I have a 23" Acer Monitor that I plug into when I sit down in my office.

I want to upgrade to a new laptop or a desktop and want to see what the grails programmers out there are using for their development work.  

Sorry for the off-topic post!

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[longwa]

Generally speaking, Grails seems to be a little cleaner on Unix (and OS X) than on Windows. I use cygwin and have problems with the grails command output, various path issues in plugins, etc.

It also seems faster on Linux and OS X for some reason. Definitely tons of memory is helpful, the embedded tomcat instance can get hefty even for a medium sized project.

-Aaron

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Owen Rubel <[hidden email]> wrote:

I got a Linux laptop from a GREAT shop in Berkeley called Zareason (zareason.com). They make their own drivers, test their equipment and release everything back to the community but everything runs great out of the box. I can run Flash, play videos, DVD's, music and even run Wine and play Warcraft... not to mention do development :)

I cannot recommend these guys enough if you live in the Bay Area. And if you don't, shipping takes a while but the machine is well worth it.

Owen Rubel

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Gustavo Tomazi Ludwig <[hidden email]> wrote:

A decent amount of L2 (or even L3) cache wouldn't hurt either...

On 06/15/2012 03:23 PM, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I see those bitten apples on the desks of all the suites in our building. 

I am definitely going with an SSD on this next machine and at least 8GB of memory.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Sebastian Gozin <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'd not be surprised if there's a large batch of Macbook Pro users.

To answer more thoroughly, I think what you want these days is lot's of memory and fast disk io.

Beyond that take the system you find most comfortable.

On 15 Jun 2012, at 19:33, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I have always wondered this and have never asked.

What computers are you using for development work?

My very modest workstation:

Toshiba Satellite L655D

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Processor: AMD Phenom II N660 Dual-Core Processor - 3.00Ghz

Memory: 4GB

I have a 23" Acer Monitor that I plug into when I sit down in my office.

I want to upgrade to a new laptop or a desktop and want to see what the grails programmers out there are using for their development work.  

Sorry for the off-topic post!

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[owen Rubel]

My zareason linux laptop was custom built for around the price of a MAC but came with 12GB of RAM (rather than a meesly 4GB) a couple TB drive, 1GB Graphics card which I card run dual and TONS of ports and goodies and endlessly upgradeable. The new Macbook Pros I hear will have the memory soldered to the motherboard. Good luck with that.

My Grails build take mere seconds... its awesome! Heh

Owen Rubel
415-971-0976
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Aaron Long <[hidden email]> wrote:

Generally speaking, Grails seems to be a little cleaner on Unix (and OS X) than on Windows. I use cygwin and have problems with the grails command output, various path issues in plugins, etc.

It also seems faster on Linux and OS X for some reason. Definitely tons of memory is helpful, the embedded tomcat instance can get hefty even for a medium sized project.

-Aaron

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Owen Rubel <[hidden email]> wrote:

I got a Linux laptop from a GREAT shop in Berkeley called Zareason (zareason.com). They make their own drivers, test their equipment and release everything back to the community but everything runs great out of the box. I can run Flash, play videos, DVD's, music and even run Wine and play Warcraft... not to mention do development :)

I cannot recommend these guys enough if you live in the Bay Area. And if you don't, shipping takes a while but the machine is well worth it.

Owen Rubel

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Gustavo Tomazi Ludwig <[hidden email]> wrote:

A decent amount of L2 (or even L3) cache wouldn't hurt either...

On 06/15/2012 03:23 PM, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I see those bitten apples on the desks of all the suites in our building. 

I am definitely going with an SSD on this next machine and at least 8GB of memory.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Sebastian Gozin <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'd not be surprised if there's a large batch of Macbook Pro users.

To answer more thoroughly, I think what you want these days is lot's of memory and fast disk io.

Beyond that take the system you find most comfortable.

On 15 Jun 2012, at 19:33, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I have always wondered this and have never asked.

What computers are you using for development work?

My very modest workstation:

Toshiba Satellite L655D

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Processor: AMD Phenom II N660 Dual-Core Processor - 3.00Ghz

Memory: 4GB

I have a 23" Acer Monitor that I plug into when I sit down in my office.

I want to upgrade to a new laptop or a desktop and want to see what the grails programmers out there are using for their development work.  

Sorry for the off-topic post!

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[burtbeckwith]

Those look good, but all of the laptop models are out of stock. They look a lot like the https://www.system76.com/ systems which are also designed for Linux. I've heard great things about System76 and will most likely buy my next laptop from them.

Burt

owen Rubel wrote

My zareason linux laptop was custom built for around the price of a MAC but
came with 12GB of RAM (rather than a meesly 4GB) a couple TB drive, 1GB
Graphics card which I card run dual and TONS of ports and goodies and
endlessly upgradeable. The new Macbook Pros I hear will have the memory
soldered to the motherboard. Good luck with that.

My Grails build take mere seconds... its awesome! Heh

Owen Rubel
415-971-0976
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[Christopher Kwiatkowski]

Wow!  More than piqued my interest.  What Linux distro did you go with?  What model did you buy?  

Lastly, do you get a commission if I mention your name at checkout?  I am not in San Fran, but I don't mind waiting for a quality machine.  I am assuming that the system has been rock-solid for you.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Owen Rubel <[hidden email]> wrote:

My zareason linux laptop was custom built for around the price of a MAC but came with 12GB of RAM (rather than a meesly 4GB) a couple TB drive, 1GB Graphics card which I card run dual and TONS of ports and goodies and endlessly upgradeable. The new Macbook Pros I hear will have the memory soldered to the motherboard. Good luck with that.

My Grails build take mere seconds... its awesome! Heh

Owen Rubel
<a href="tel:[phone]" value="[phone]" target="_blank">415-971-0976
[hidden email]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Aaron Long <[hidden email]> wrote:

Generally speaking, Grails seems to be a little cleaner on Unix (and OS X) than on Windows. I use cygwin and have problems with the grails command output, various path issues in plugins, etc.

It also seems faster on Linux and OS X for some reason. Definitely tons of memory is helpful, the embedded tomcat instance can get hefty even for a medium sized project.

-Aaron

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Owen Rubel <[hidden email]> wrote:

I got a Linux laptop from a GREAT shop in Berkeley called Zareason (zareason.com). They make their own drivers, test their equipment and release everything back to the community but everything runs great out of the box. I can run Flash, play videos, DVD's, music and even run Wine and play Warcraft... not to mention do development :)

I cannot recommend these guys enough if you live in the Bay Area. And if you don't, shipping takes a while but the machine is well worth it.

Owen Rubel

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Gustavo Tomazi Ludwig <[hidden email]> wrote:

A decent amount of L2 (or even L3) cache wouldn't hurt either...

On 06/15/2012 03:23 PM, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I see those bitten apples on the desks of all the suites in our building. 

I am definitely going with an SSD on this next machine and at least 8GB of memory.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Sebastian Gozin <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'd not be surprised if there's a large batch of Macbook Pro users.

To answer more thoroughly, I think what you want these days is lot's of memory and fast disk io.

Beyond that take the system you find most comfortable.

On 15 Jun 2012, at 19:33, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I have always wondered this and have never asked.

What computers are you using for development work?

My very modest workstation:

Toshiba Satellite L655D

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Processor: AMD Phenom II N660 Dual-Core Processor - 3.00Ghz

Memory: 4GB

I have a 23" Acer Monitor that I plug into when I sit down in my office.

I want to upgrade to a new laptop or a desktop and want to see what the grails programmers out there are using for their development work.  

Sorry for the off-topic post!

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[Christopher Kwiatkowski]

Definitely out-of-stock.  Thanks for the heads-up.  I emailed their support address.

On the linux reddit the system76 laptops have been getting a bad rap.  Though it may just be the herd mentality over at reddit.  

The prices look comparable and I have been a long time Ubuntu, Mint, and #! user.  In my last job I set up our development team on Ubuntu desktops. I think it is great that there is a lot of support for linux on grails-user.  

Thanks for the advice gentlemen! 

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:55 PM, burtbeckwith <[hidden email]> wrote:

Those look good, but all of the laptop models are out of stock. They look a
lot like the https://www.system76.com/ systems which are also designed for
Linux. I've heard great things about System76 and will most likely buy my
next laptop from them.

Burt


owen Rubel wrote

>
> My zareason linux laptop was custom built for around the price of a MAC
> but
> came with 12GB of RAM (rather than a meesly 4GB) a couple TB drive, 1GB
> Graphics card which I card run dual and TONS of ports and goodies and
> endlessly upgradeable. The new Macbook Pros I hear will have the memory
> soldered to the motherboard. Good luck with that.
>
> My Grails build take mere seconds... its awesome! Heh
>
> Owen Rubel
> <a href="tel:[phone]" value="[phone]">415-971-0976
> orubel@
>

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[Dean Del Ponte-2]

I've got a two year old MacBook Pro with 8 gigs of memory. Rock solid. No problems. 

My next laptop will likely have 16 gigs of memory. 

I think memory is very important on a developer machine. You can never have too much. 

- Dean Del Ponte

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On Friday, June 15, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I have always wondered this and have never asked.

What computers are you using for development work?

My very modest workstation:

Toshiba Satellite L655D

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Processor: AMD Phenom II N660 Dual-Core Processor - 3.00Ghz

Memory: 4GB

I have a 23" Acer Monitor that I plug into when I sit down in my office.

I want to upgrade to a new laptop or a desktop and want to see what the grails programmers out there are using for their development work.  

Sorry for the off-topic post!

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[Jonathan Andrew Ong]

I use a 13" mbp, with 8gb and 120gb SSD. The SSD makes a huge difference so I recommend it to everyone. 

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On Jun 16, 2012, at 10:21, Dean Del Ponte <[hidden email]> wrote:

I've got a two year old MacBook Pro with 8 gigs of memory. Rock solid. No problems. 

My next laptop will likely have 16 gigs of memory. 

I think memory is very important on a developer machine. You can never have too much. 

- Dean Del Ponte

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On Friday, June 15, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I have always wondered this and have never asked.

What computers are you using for development work?

My very modest workstation:

Toshiba Satellite L655D

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Processor: AMD Phenom II N660 Dual-Core Processor - 3.00Ghz

Memory: 4GB

I have a 23" Acer Monitor that I plug into when I sit down in my office.

I want to upgrade to a new laptop or a desktop and want to see what the grails programmers out there are using for their development work.  

Sorry for the off-topic post!

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[rlovtangen]

I use a 2011 MacBook Pro 17" 2.4GHz i7 with 16GB RAM and SSD. 

At work I hook it up to a 27" Dell U2711 and a 24". The 27" Dell is a very nice monitor that doesn't cost too much.

As others on the thread has said, SSD is a must. It's the no 1 speed improvement the latest decade.

I also recommend maxing out the memory, especially if you need to run a couple of vmware instances to test with IE. RAM is really cheap these days, especially if you have a laptop that can take 4 x 4GB modules, but the latest months 2 x 8GB has dropped in price as well.

Worth to mention, as someone might not be aware of, is that most MacBooks can take twice as much memory as Apple tell you. See http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_MacBook_MacBook_Pro/Upgrade

Running Grails commands is twice as fast compared to my previous computer, which was a 4 year old MacBook Pro with 2.4GHz core 2 duo, 6GB RAM and SSD.  

Ronny

On Jun 15, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I have always wondered this and have never asked.

What computers are you using for development work?

My very modest workstation:

Toshiba Satellite L655D

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Processor: AMD Phenom II N660 Dual-Core Processor - 3.00Ghz

Memory: 4GB

I have a 23" Acer Monitor that I plug into when I sit down in my office.

I want to upgrade to a new laptop or a desktop and want to see what the grails programmers out there are using for their development work.  

Sorry for the off-topic post!

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[Jonathan Andrew Ong]

Ronny,

What adapter do you use to enable triple display?

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On Jun 16, 2012, at 21:06, "Ronny Løvtangen" <[hidden email]> wrote:

I use a 2011 MacBook Pro 17" 2.4GHz i7 with 16GB RAM and SSD. 

At work I hook it up to a 27" Dell U2711 and a 24". The 27" Dell is a very nice monitor that doesn't cost too much.

As others on the thread has said, SSD is a must. It's the no 1 speed improvement the latest decade.

I also recommend maxing out the memory, especially if you need to run a couple of vmware instances to test with IE. RAM is really cheap these days, especially if you have a laptop that can take 4 x 4GB modules, but the latest months 2 x 8GB has dropped in price as well.

Worth to mention, as someone might not be aware of, is that most MacBooks can take twice as much memory as Apple tell you. See http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_MacBook_MacBook_Pro/Upgrade

Running Grails commands is twice as fast compared to my previous computer, which was a 4 year old MacBook Pro with 2.4GHz core 2 duo, 6GB RAM and SSD.  

Ronny

On Jun 15, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I have always wondered this and have never asked.

What computers are you using for development work?

My very modest workstation:

Toshiba Satellite L655D

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Processor: AMD Phenom II N660 Dual-Core Processor - 3.00Ghz

Memory: 4GB

I have a 23" Acer Monitor that I plug into when I sit down in my office.

I want to upgrade to a new laptop or a desktop and want to see what the grails programmers out there are using for their development work.  

Sorry for the off-topic post!

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[rlovtangen]

I use this one: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/VIDU2DVIA/

Works great.

Ronny

On Jun 16, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Jonathan Andrew Ong wrote:

Ronny,

What adapter do you use to enable triple display?

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 16, 2012, at 21:06, "Ronny Løvtangen" <[hidden email]> wrote:

I use a 2011 MacBook Pro 17" 2.4GHz i7 with 16GB RAM and SSD. 

At work I hook it up to a 27" Dell U2711 and a 24". The 27" Dell is a very nice monitor that doesn't cost too much.

As others on the thread has said, SSD is a must. It's the no 1 speed improvement the latest decade.

I also recommend maxing out the memory, especially if you need to run a couple of vmware instances to test with IE. RAM is really cheap these days, especially if you have a laptop that can take 4 x 4GB modules, but the latest months 2 x 8GB has dropped in price as well.

Worth to mention, as someone might not be aware of, is that most MacBooks can take twice as much memory as Apple tell you. See http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_MacBook_MacBook_Pro/Upgrade

Running Grails commands is twice as fast compared to my previous computer, which was a 4 year old MacBook Pro with 2.4GHz core 2 duo, 6GB RAM and SSD.  

Ronny

On Jun 15, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I have always wondered this and have never asked.

What computers are you using for development work?

My very modest workstation:

Toshiba Satellite L655D

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Processor: AMD Phenom II N660 Dual-Core Processor - 3.00Ghz

Memory: 4GB

I have a 23" Acer Monitor that I plug into when I sit down in my office.

I want to upgrade to a new laptop or a desktop and want to see what the grails programmers out there are using for their development work.  

Sorry for the off-topic post!

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I work on a Lenovo T420s with Ubuntu 12.04
Prozessor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2620M CPU @ 2.70GHz
Memory: 8GB
HDD: 64GB SSD
At home and the office I#ve always a second monitor with at least 22" attached.

On 06/15/2012 07:33 PM, Christopher Kwiatkowski wrote:

I have always wondered this and have never asked.

What computers are you using for development work?

My very modest workstation:

Toshiba Satellite L655D

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Processor: AMD Phenom II N660 Dual-Core Processor - 3.00Ghz

Memory: 4GB

I have a 23" Acer Monitor that I plug into when I sit down in my office.

I want to upgrade to a new laptop or a desktop and want to see what the grails programmers out there are using for their development work.  

Sorry for the off-topic post!

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Christopher T. Kwiatkowski
Founder, rapidcommittee.com
706.389.5076
[hidden email]  
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