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Discussion on: Laptop Performance Matters

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sanidz

p53 with xeon cpu and 128gb of ram is still modern thin laptop :D
Jests aside, PCs are just much better for serious work because they dont have thermal or power throtling.

Suitable dev machine is workstation laptop that has quadcore cpu with at least 16gigs of ram or at least posibility to upgrade it in the future. I mean, we live in the times when even smartphones have 12GB of ram.
And Chrome with opened dev tools is eating few gigs just for apetizers.

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Michiel Hendriks

And we live in times where developers no longer really care about being conservative of RAM and CPU because systems have plenty anyway :/

I still don't understand why people use the Slack client rather than just having a tab open in the browser.

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sanidz • Edited

Absolutely agree but why would they? Ram is cheap.

Slack notifications in browser are not that reliable as in desktop client.

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Michiel Hendriks

RAM isn't cheap when you need to keep adding it because you want to run more than 4 processes on your system.

I don't use any kind of notifications except for confirmed meetings. I've got work to do and that works better without things screaming for attention :p