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by ratww
1981 days ago
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My favourite development machine is still my 9 year old Air with 4GB. I mostly do frontend, a bit of Rails and some of GameDev with C++. It forces me to use lightweight tools (like Sublime) and it works like a charm. One advantage of having it is that the company I work for has a very international and diverse user base, but gives us developers super modern machines. Some developers tend to overgineer and cause performance issues on slower computers. With an older laptop I can understand better how the app will be perceived by users. |
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Exactly this. It forces me to optimize instead of taking shortcuts.
But the #1 effect is on focus: I can't have many tabs open and procrastinate.
8Gb is ideal for me. I'll see how it goes with 4Gb.