I agree Kyley, you do need to re-invest in your Hardware....better you have it than the taxman take your $$....but there is one thing that you need to keep in mind.<br>Whilst your software runs at an amazing pace on your PC, the customer may not have such a speedy machine and your software "may" run like a one legged dog.<br>
If you are developeing for a single client you can say ....go update your hardware, but when developing for a mass-market (well as mass as you can get in NZ) you may have people trying to run your kick-ass software on a PIII 700 or something.<br>
I always try to take this into consideration, and hence why I still ahve a 3year old PC. If it flys on my machine I have written nice-ish tight code and it will be fine on other PC's.<br>However, when customers have better machines than you, its time to do some investment :-) Which is what I am doing at the moment. I just have to decide what to get.....!<br>
<br>As for 2 monitors, I tried that a few years back, but I have to say it just annoyed me, so I have go back to a big single monitor. I guess its about what works for me and I know others will say its mad, bit honestly it doenst bother me having 1 monitor.<br>
<br>Jeremy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Sean Cross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Sean.Cross@catalystrisk.co.nz">Sean.Cross@catalystrisk.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If you want two monitors on a laptop, look at<br>
<a href="http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/dh2go/" target="_blank">http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/dh2go/</a><br>
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Personally I don't think I will go back to using a desktop any time soon. My combination of 24" monitor and 17" laptop works fine. Big screen for dev, small screen for email, word etc,<br>
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Regards<br>
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Sean Cross<br>
CIO<br>
Catalyst Risk Management<br>
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</div><div class="im">I'd like to plug 2 monitors into my laptop, but not supported - a 30<br>
inch screen would be good to - but a bit expensive at the moment, plus<br>
it requires dual dvi (as far as I understand). I think I'll get a<br>
desktop for my next dev machine for just this reason.<br>
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