id never work on that little thing.. dvd player.. I have a Quad Core with 2 22" montiors running 1600x1050<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Alister Christie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alister@salespartner.co.nz">alister@salespartner.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">except you'd go blind if you had to do any real dev work on because of<br>
the small screen. I now plug an external 24 inch screen into my laptop<br>
for a similar reason (fewer headaches). The laptop does have a 17 inch<br>
screen but at 1920x1200 things are a bit small. I remember when I was<br>
first programming in Delphi on a 14 (maybe it was 15) inch monitor - my<br>
how things have changed.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
Alister Christie<br>
Computers for People<br>
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</div><div class="im">Kyley Harris wrote:<br>
> I have one of those $500 Asus EEE computers that runs windows XP on<br>
> 256MB of ram, and a 4GB SSD.. takes 25seconds to boot up.. way faster<br>
> than any other laptop.. still has 120mb free ram and 1gb of disk<br>
> space.. I plug a USB hdd into it and its great. battery life is awesome<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Stefan Mueller<br>
</div><div class="im">> <<a href="mailto:muellers@orcl-toolbox.com">muellers@orcl-toolbox.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:muellers@orcl-toolbox.com">muellers@orcl-toolbox.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> I am also keeping my eyes open for SSD .. those drives should be<br>
> able to<br>
> improve compile speeds drastically ... they have close to no<br>
> seek-times and<br>
> manage to read thousands of small files at high speed.<br>
><br>
> I probably go with one of the PCIe cards coming out soon (like OCZ<br>
> Z-Drive,<br>
> or PhotoFast Monster) if the price is ok. PCIe cards have the<br>
> advantage that<br>
> they get over the 300MBps (theoretical) limit that SATA-II has.<br>
><br>
> The OCZ Vertex-II drive also looks promising:<br>
> <a href="http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&task" target="_blank">http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&task</a><br>
> =view<br>
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<div><div></div><div class="h5">><br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> Stefan<br>
><br>
><br>
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> <mailto:<a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a>><br>
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> <mailto:<a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a>>] On<br>
> Behalf Of Ross Levis<br>
> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:56<br>
> To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'<br>
> Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues<br>
><br>
> I'm looking forward to larger cheaper solid state drives which<br>
> last up to<br>
> 100 years, replacing hard drives which fail every few years. 10+<br>
> times<br>
> faster than a hard drive. I've heard a PC with one of these<br>
> drives can boot<br>
> Windows XP in 4 seconds.<br>
><br>
> Prices will get below US$2 per GB this year. It's still out of my<br>
> price<br>
> range, but I'm considering upgrading my laptop's hard drive to a 240GB<br>
> SanDisk drive later this year.<br>
> <a href="http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=8040" target="_blank">http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=8040</a><br>
><br>
> Ross.<br>
><br>
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> <mailto:<a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a>><br>
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</div></div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a>>] On<br>
> Behalf Of Richard Bullin<br>
> Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2009 12:15 p.m.<br>
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br>
> Subject: Re: [DUG] BDS.exe memory issues<br>
><br>
> I'm not really sure if 300mb classifies Delphi as a memory hog if you<br>
> look at getting one of the below computers with 192GB of ram, I<br>
> foresee<br>
> a surge in lazy programmers :)<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&" target="_blank">http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&</a><br>
> articleId=9130538<br>
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<div class="im">><br>
><br>
> Richard<br>
><br>
> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: <a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a>><br>
</div><div class="im">> [mailto:<a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a><br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a>>]<br>
> On Behalf Of Alister Christie<br>
> Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2009 12:01 p.m.<br>
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br>
> Subject: Re: [DUG] BDS.exe memory issues<br>
><br>
> Currently I'm on 254MB.<br>
><br>
> Close Delphi - 0MB<br>
> Open Delphi - 11MB<br>
> Open Project - 71MB<br>
> Compile - 154MB (peaking at around 170MB)<br>
> Open a Project with modeling support - 215MB<br>
><br>
> And the numbers just keep going up from there the more you do.<br>
><br>
> I think it's fair to say that it is a bit of a memory hog. Although I<br>
> have 6 chrome processes running currently eating up a total of 155MB.<br>
><br>
> I guess we could turn this into a discussion of who is running the<br>
> most<br>
> memory hungry App and/or instance of Delphi currently?<br>
> (Currently Jeremy leads at 307MB)<br>
><br>
> Alister Christie<br>
> Computers for People<br>
> Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266<br>
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> PO Box 13085<br>
> Johnsonville<br>
> Wellington<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Jeremy Coulter wrote:<br>
> > Does anyone else get issues with BDS.exe (delphi 2007) using a<br>
> HEAP of<br>
><br>
> > memory?<br>
> > at the moment its sitting on 307mb of mem usage !<br>
> ><br>
> > Admittedly my current machine only has 2GB (new machine has been<br>
> > ordered....YAY) but seriously, thats HEAPS.<br>
> > In saying that, I notic that FireFox is sitting on 131mb too.<br>
> ><br>
> > just wondered if this is a common issue, and if there is a<br>
> solution to<br>
><br>
> > it or not.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Jeremy<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
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