thats a good idea Conor. Didnt think of that :-)<br><br>Jeremy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Conor Boyd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Conor.Boyd@trimble.co.nz">Conor.Boyd@trimble.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">For testing on "slower" PCs, here's one thought of
mine.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I use VirtualPC for doing a lot of testing. While I
accept it's difficult to quantify how much slower a VPC is rather than my
desktop, it is most definitely slower. Plus you have the ability to
control the memory available to the VPC.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Using Virtual Server would probably give you even more
control, since you can throttle the processor availability for a VPC as
well.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">As well as VirtualPC for testing on my dev box, I use
virtual machines on a Virtual Server for build PCs, etc. The change to the
Delphi license a couple of versions ago just made that scenario more legit.
;-)</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Cheers,</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">C.</font></span></div><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz" target="_blank">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz" target="_blank">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeremy
Coulter<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 17 April 2009 10:46 a.m.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><b>To:</b> NZ
Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC]
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<div></div>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" target="_blank">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><br>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><br>Regards<br><font color="#888888"> <br>Sean Cross<br>CIO<br>Catalyst Risk
Management<br></font>
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On Behalf Of Alister Christie<br>Sent: Friday, 17 April 2009 10:20 a.m.<br>To:
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<div>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><br>Alister
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13085<br>Johnsonville<br>Wellington<br><br></div>
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