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If all they do is browse/design the pages, maybe. If your developers need to run Eclipse, JBoss, Oracle, SQLDeveloper, Safari, IE6, IE7, Firefox, run Maven/Ant builds, email client, IM client, etc... Then the faster their machine runs those builds, switches to the next browser, lets your app retrieve data from Oracle, etc... the better. Ideally your developers would have the exact same specs as your users' machines + your build server + your web-app servers/cluster, if you want them to see things the same way they'll be seen in production. Since that's not really viable, lets settle for a really fast, high RAM, desktop/laptop with a big screen:) |