Jeff Cochran wrote
I have the assortment of large drives, big monitors, etc. but that's partly because my work is not strictly developing for DNN. I have VirtualPC/VirtualServer on all my systems and use them extensively for development work. I'll carry a VM on a USB key between systems and fire it up for the same result on each system I develop on.
Jeff
I'm actually in the same boat as Jeff. DNN is only a minor fraction of the development work I do. I also handle development for Client-Server applications that essentially run several of the departments in the Credit Union I work for, other web applications, as well as server side applications to handle processing large amounts of data.
I'd venture a guess that a lot of it *is* that we are all major geeks and like to have overpowered machines, but there are definitely enough requirements in there to warrant the power.
EDIT: Oh, and regarding large hard disk space... my computer at work has 500gb taken up between CD/DVD images from my MSDN subscription, and roughly 2gb in my "dev" folder consisting of code, images, notes, diagrams, etc. Downloading that fresh from source control is always a nightmare. At home, things are a little more spread out because the computer is used for gaming and other things as well. A good 800gb is spent in family photos and videos.