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question about RAM, Processor Speed and Video Cards (combination)
all,
I've been a software developer for many years now and I've never really understood 100% how all of these items play into getting the maximum performance (e.g. - moving extremely fast) out of my development machines. I need to get a Win 7 machine for dev. purposes at this point. Here's what I generally have open at the same time on any development machine (windows) that I use:
10 firefox tabs
Excel (2 instances)
Access (2 instances)
Skype
A screen sharing program (like GoToMeeting / join.me)
1 youtube video
I'm simply amazed at how slowly all of this runs on my current machine that is Vista 64-bit, Pentium dual-core 2.6GHZ, 6GB RAM. My machine is 4-6 years old now so the motherboard could possibly be the issue. Hard drive too.
But my question with all of that said is, what would be someone's advice here for me that needs a development machine of Win 7 simply for the purposes of testing development copies of software? So it has to be bare bones. Nothing more. What kind of absolute minimum specs would you guys say I should look for?
thanks.