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Greetings to all,

I was wondering, on what hardware do PureBasic people develop? Personally, regardless of fairly modern PC I have (Xeon E3-1231, 32GB RAM, 4x256GB SSD@RAID 10, 2x Quadro K600...) I simply couldn't live without two monitors, currently rather old 23" Dell's, U2312HM and my 21 years old IBM "Click" (Model M). I also keep HP Vectra VL420 DT with 1.6GHz Willy, 256MB RAM and 40GB 5.4k RPM drive - just to show our clients how well PB is optimized.

OS: Microsoft Windows 10 64 Bit
CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K 3.3 GHz
RAM: 8 GB DDR3
HDD:
• 256 GB internal SSD Sata3 (Windows + installed programs)
• 500 GB internal HDD Sata3 (my own files)
• 250 GB internal HDD Sata3 (realtime backup (software RAID 1 (with my own software)))
• 1 TB external HDD USB 3.0 (external backup)
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GT 520 1024 MB DDR3
Mon: 2x 24"

bbanelli wrote:I simply couldn't live without two monitors

+1

<=$400 laptops typically early two-thousands up to third-generation Intel 2GB-8GB some with discreet graphics most not. Mostly 1366x768.

I travel a lot and never bought a x1080 or 4k laptop. Probably getting a 17" Maxwell based 4k laptop within a month though with a low-TDP Skylake quad CPU. That'll get me through at least half a decade probably just replacing OEM fan assembly sometimes etc..

I've build a few high-end ITX boxes for gaming but sold them do to traveling. For PB it's my experience that unless you're doing a large-scale 3D project you're probably better off with a cheapo 1080p-4k laptop or ITX build. The closest to dual monitors I've been is many instances of virtualbox for OSX+Debian+NT testing.

If you want to see really low end look in to the Russian and Western Europe reverse engineering and coding scenes.. I seen someone reverse engineering complex security with a Turion Acer just months ago..

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ts-soft wrote:Make a click on the banner in my signature

Your GPU is only $140.00 less than a 1060 6GB and $60.00 less than a mid-range GM2XX. I was going to get the 4GB model and I think they never released it. 6GB GTX 1060 is going for around $250.00 and is probably good for four more years at x1080.

Of course most of Europe a 8800 GTX still goes for a few hundred euro..

These are my capital goods; which I'm happy to say are my hobby crafts as well.

My displays comprise of two 23" Dell S2340L LED monitors and an old 14" Samsung LCD one, and my main input devices are the Corsair K70 keyboard, the Logitech T-BC21 trackball, and the Logitech K270 wireless keyboard & mouse.

These are plugged via an ATEN C5682 KVM into a Fujitsu Lifebook i3, Microsoft Surface Pro i5, and Acer Timeline i7, running Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 respectively, all x64.

The same input devices are bridged to an Apple Macbook Pro (Yosemite) and Mackbook Air (Lion), via ShareMouse through WiFi, both displayed onto the Dell monitors via the KVM.

Besides that, I still keep another older Acer Timeline i7 and Asus netbook, both running Windows XP x86 (with IE 6 & 7) for backward testing.

Since I don't develop much on Linux, Ubuntu 14 is simply installed as a dual-boot on the Fujitsu Lifebook i3.

All these are hooked up via a wireless router to two multi-function laser printers, a Brother MFC-7840N mono, and Fuji-Xerox CM-215FW colour, and connected to the net via a 1Gbps fibre broadband line.

Storage range from internal HDDs, to various external SSDs, thumb drives and memory cards; and these, in addition to online and cloud storage, on public and private servers.

While the Corsair gaming keyboard and Logitech trackball are really great for extended coding and graphics work, the wireless keyboard and mouse allow me to kick back, stretch out, and code easy, when necessary.

Besides PureBasic, development software include XCode, Visual Studio, Android Studio, CodeBlocks, and the trusty old NotePad++ for HTML, JavaScript, and PHP. And the indispensable development tools include Adobe PhotoShop, XAMPP, and FileZilla, among others.

I've personally not used a desktop system since 2014.

@tj1010

My GPU is energy-efficient, no extra power supply. Fast enough for Programming, Video and so on. I'm to old for
Games

ts-soft wrote:@tj1010

My GPU is energy-efficient, no extra power supply. Fast enough for Programming, Video and so on. I'm to old for
Games

Almost the same here. Every three years a game comes out that I might play for a week. The rest of the time I do PS and HD movie editing *rarely*.

I started looking at the product of playing a game for six hours a day sometime in my twenties when the reality of currency and time hit.. Games that actually produce something(even with account sales) are almost non-existent.

Primary Programming Computer = HP Pavilion 2nd Gen AMD Quad-Core A8-5500 Processor
8 GB DDR3-1600 memory
AMD Raedon HD7560D Graphics
1 TB Hard Drive
WD 2 TB external HD , WD 1 TB backup
OS = Windows 7 , 64-Bit , never updated
HP 25VX Monitor

Secondary Programming Computer = Windows 8.0 never updated
HP Pavilion 64-Bit
HP 25VX Monitor

Wife's new Gamming WIN10 Prof 64-Bit version
will shortly begin testing my Softwares on

at my Business :
10-11 assorted Desktop Computers from WIN95, WIN98,ME, Vista 32-bit, etc

WIN 7 32-Bit Computer + Acer Monitor use to be main programming Computer
2 WIN-XP Computers on Machines , also have PureBasic on them
1 Vista on another Machine

WIN95 computer just QB4.5 VBDOS VB1.0
WIN98 upwards to WIN8.0 all have various PureBasic versions on them
and some have VB1.0 Pro Win and DOS ,2.0,3.0-Pro,4.0-16 and 32 Enterprise,VB6.0 , QB1.0,2.0,3.0,4.5, 7.0, 7.1 PDS , VB DOS Pro 1.0 and STD

bbanelli wrote:...my 21 years old IBM "Click" (Model M)

Of all the spoken specs, I'm highly impressed by this!

VB6_to_PBx wrote:WIN95 computer just QB4.5 VBDOS VB1.0
WIN98 upwards to WIN8.0 all have various PureBasic versions on them
and some have VB1.0 Pro Win and DOS ,2.0,3.0-Pro,4.0-16 and 32 Enterprise,VB6.0 , QB1.0,2.0,3.0,4.5, 7.0, 7.1 PDS , VB DOS Pro 1.0 and STD

And these!

bbanelli wrote: my 21 years old IBM "Click" (Model M)

Mine is 27 years old, typing with that one right now
My most loved piece of hardware.

sys64802 wrote:Mine is 27 years old, typing with that one right now
My most loved piece of hardware.

really WOW !
Have you got an old mechanical keyboard too ?
I would love to get one from that era !

HW: Mac Mini 6.1 / Intel I5 2.5GHz/ 8GB RAM
OS: OS X 10.11.x El Captain / Xcode

VM Parallels:
- Windows XP Pro
- Windows 7 Pro
- Windows 10 Pro
- Ubuntu 14.04 32/64bit
- Ubuntu 16.04 32/64bit

Work well to three virtual machines at the same time.

I don't have a graphics card cos i dont play games.
I do have 32 gigs RAM cos i do play a lot of VMs (and i cant use Win10 without it being locked up, being one of those rare humans that values privacy and all that - yes Microsoft we do exist! )

I recently bought an Asus Zenbook Pro UX501VW laptop. It's pretty good, easily the best laptop I've used.