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What are your computer’s specs? Which specs are particularly important to you?

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I'm Luis! \^-^/ • Edited

It's a dell latitude E6410 with 8GB of RAM and an i5 CPU

Most important to me is CPU/RAM (speed). I don't use a lot of storage because once I dropped my laptop and lost all my info. So I keep my local info to a minimum.

It's pretty old now, but now that I got my first programming job I can buy one under $1000. I'm taking recommendations :)

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Rémy 🤖

The first computer in bought with my first salary (which I almost completely spent on it) was a Thinkpad X1 Carbon (1st Gen). Still serving me well today 6 years later.

I wouldn't hesitate to put more money for something that lasts

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KhoPhi • Edited

i7 3rd Gen
16gb ram
1tb SSD

The most important to me is the SSD, followed by the RAM.

p.s. the most useless of my machine spec is the 820m Nvidia GeForce VGA. I even have it turned of.

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Mark

i9, 16gb DDR4, 4gb GDDR5, 512gb ssd

Memory is important, I swap desktops and apps frequently. The less local lag the better!

Hard drive space is important to a point. There has to be enough that the system doesn't run out of room, but I don't need it to be overwhelming. External media is cheap.

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Rémy 🤖

A SSD and at least 16GB of RAM that's all I ask (and about 1kg or less if a laptop)

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Ashlee (she/her)

The screen is big: 15.6”. The battery lasts a long time: ~8 hours even while coding and running a local server. There’s a number keypad too. 😋

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Ben Halpern

I agree with others here bringing up RAM and SSD as the specs to look for.

Anything that keeps these apps from eating up all the memory and I/O resources!

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Thomas C. Haflich

Currently at 2 monitors. Most important spec is number of monitors, and additional ports and graphical capability to plug in more monitors.

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Bernard Notarianni

I would like to updgrade my monitor.
I am hesitating between those scenarios:

  1. two (or maybe more?) large screens
  2. one extra large curved screen

What do you think?

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Thomas C. Haflich

Personally I'm not a fan of the extra-large curved screens, something about them just seems a bit "off" to my eye. I will very readily admit to that being personal preference and not an objective fact. I also like to have one monitor in portrait mode for code. Multi-monitor setups also tend to be more efficient in terms of "pixel-area per dollar", but this is obviously dependent on which exact monitors you're looking at.

If any of these are a consideration for you, you might want to pick "more smaller monitors", but I will say that there is a certain coolness factor in the battlestations with gigantic high-resolution screens. It also depends on what will fit on your specific desk - investing in a new desk is an entirely separate ordeal.

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Bernard Notarianni • Edited

The portrait mode for code is a brillant idea.
I think it is the way to got for me!

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Adam Crockett 🌀

I'm not gona do specs because they are out of date. Honestly what matters is that I don't have dial-up internet and everything runs smoothly. I have been considering Chromebooks lately as they are pretty disposable, and with codesandbox I could have almost vscode.

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Stephen Belovarich • Edited

2.3 GHz Intel Core i9 w/ Turbo Boost up to 4.8 GHz
32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 ✅
Radeon Pro 560X 4 GB
Sonnet eGPU w/ 8GB Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 580 ✅
500GB Apple SSD ✅

I went for the second most powerful Apple MBP this time around. The most powerful configuration is overclocked and didn't want to mess with that.

Someone told me I wouldn't need 32GB RAM but so far it hasn't hurt!

SSD is essential. I was using an older computer w/o SSD for awhile and boy did I feel it while developing.

I can't recommend the eGPU enough. It drives my monitors so my MBP doesn't have to (and I only have to plug in one cable to dock my MBP). On top of that, I've found multiple apps will actually take advantage of it, including web browsers. This is a huge plus when I'm experimenting with WebGL. I can swap out the video card too whenever I want to upgrade.

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Phillip Shim

Nice, what kind of docking station do you use?

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Stephen Belovarich • Edited

No docking station. Single Thunderbolt 3 cable runs from MBP into eGPU with doubles my VRAM and powers the MBP.

When I rarely need to use another port that's not available on the MBP or when I'm on the go I use a HyperDrive Duo 7-in-2 USB-C Hub. Its great because its compact and it gives me all the ports I need! I can even go old school and connect a SuperDrive to it (even though Hyper claims this doesn't work I recently pulled some archived materials off burned DVDs using an old SuperDrive I pulled out of a legacy MBP).

hypershop.com/products/hyperdrive-...

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Fulton Browne

Very jealous beside the fact its a mac, I love it (I am not an apple fan , OK).

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Ynoa Pedro

So much power

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Fulton Browne

Dell precision T-3600
with:
Intel Xeon E5 2637
32 GB of DDR3 RAM
500 gig crucial SSD and a 1TB WD enterprise drive
Nvidia Quadro k600

Most important is RAM and storage speed