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10/25/2008 9:18 AM
 
Armand Datema


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As for Ventrian this was his 2005 setup http://www.ventrian.com/Resources/Blog/tabid/243/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/269/Alienware-Aurora-7500-Review.aspx

I use my big screens to have several code windows and toolboxed alongside. And afcourse photoshop the bigger you have your design area the better.

 

as for crap I have developed on pentium windows xp notebook with 384 mb of ram and 60 gig hd ( it was one of my first notebooks and the only on that lasted this long

 

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10/25/2008 10:31 AM
 
cathal connolly


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Leazon wrote
 

Well I think Tony has got the overkill award locked up! 

I found the answers here so interesting that I sent out an email to all the DNNer's in my address book and got even more answers back - one of the top 10 third party developers uses a Macbook Pro for his development machine! - I like it!  So I've heard about all the high end systems and since I'm tired of being jealous.... - does anybody use just middle of the road equipment?  Who will win the crappiest dev machine award?  - There's got to be someone pumping out really cool DNN stuff on some hunk of junk somewhere! What's the least equipment you can develop on?  Win XP Pro, 1.nothin' ghz Celeron with 1 gb ram??????

Now that my curiousity has grown even further I would really like to hear what type of machine Michael Washington uses.  Or Scott M at Ventrian - bet he uses a both feet on the ground machine.  Whereas I would guess Will at Active uses middle to high end equipment and the boys at R2I probably have a NASA looking room with 52" wall monitors with a project mgmt system counting down milestones like stock tickers!  Of course Shaun, being the man with the money, has probably moved past equipment all togther and codes in his own personal holodeck!

Kinda fun trying to guess dev machines based on forum personalities - who can guess what Joe Brinkman uses?  Yeah, I'm having fun with it but learning quite a bit too. Plus it's interesting. 

I mostly work on a 4 year old xp laptop, 1.6ghz centrino, 1Gig of ram and 60Gig harddrive but have been saving my pennies for something a little more 21st century.

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10/25/2008 11:53 AM
 
Ian Marlow


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Joined: 2/20/2006
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Speaking as someone who does a lot of Photoshop work I use Vista Ultimate with 4 monitors - x2 24" and x2 20".  
I use Vista as its the only way to get enough memory (8GB)
I hate having to move windows around and this way I can leave email and FTP progs parked on a 20, text editor on another which leaves two nice big areas for work.

I always buy MOBO's with onboard GFX chips so the addition of a real GFX card leaves me with 3 monitors.
The fourth is driven off of one of those USB GFX cards you can get now. (They work really well and are quite cheap).
IMO: A multi-monitor setup easily brings greater productivity benefits than faster CPU's.

As I have to hold a very large image and video library I have 4 750GB drives in dual external eSATA boxes. Two are work drives and two are backups as "data is only real if it exists in more than one place". 
 
Personally I am shocked at "poor" Cathal's set up - Does VS even run on it properly?  60GB drive!  Impressive.

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10/25/2008 10:51 PM
 
Michael Washington


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Leazon wrote
 

I would really like to hear what type of machine Michael Washington uses. 

At work I have a machine that is embarrassingly powerful. Dual 24" monitors, A terabyte of hard drive space with a Raid 5. Liquid cooled, 8 gigs of Ram, Dual core blah blah blah and it's running Windows 2008 Server which works GREAT as a desktop machine. I could not be happier. I have to run multiple virtuals to test things out so that's why that machine is a bit over the top. It would be hard to leave my current job because they don't skimp when it to comes to providing the tools you need.

At home, for my DNN Open Source stuff I have AMD 64 Dual Core running Windows Vista with 4 gigs of Ram and 100 Gig Hard Drive. I did have to get a 24 inch monitor at home because 24 inch monitors really DO increase productivity. 


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10/26/2008 9:36 AM
 
Will Morgenweck


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Joined: 1/4/2006
Posts: 501

Each developer for Active Modules is setup with a Dell M6300 Extreme processors and 4 Gb of RAM.  I'm actually replacing mine with the new Dell M6400 which is a Quad Core Extreme, 16GB of Ram, 1 GB of Video and  dual 30" screens.  The best part is that it's a laptop.

I think dual monitors, 64-bit OS and a minimum of 4GB of RAM is a must for any developer.

Will Morgenweck
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DotNetNuke Corp.
 
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