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0 pointscom2kid8y ago0 comments

> I also rather develop for Android, but Android Studio resource requirements made me appreciate Eclipse again.

There is a reason my dev machine is a Desktop. Better keyboard, better monitor, better performance. 6 year old machine, cost about $1500, performs better than the ultraportables a lot of people try to press into service for writing code. Even with a faster CPU, thermal throttling is a concern once the form factor gets to a certain size.

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pjmlp8y ago

We don't get to chose what we get.

Usually the customer's IT assigns hardware to external consultants.

com2kidOP8y ago

Ah interesting, when my team used external consultants, we did the inverse, we gave the consulting company a beefy requirements list and told them anyone sent to work for us must be at least that well equipped.

Paying by the hour, we were heavily motivated to minimize compile times. :)

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