I listened to a keynote once that said your machine shouldnt be the “best of the best” as it will give you unrealistic views of application performance on average users machines…

However I’m using 2 Quad Core Xeons… and 8gb of ram, so I can’t talk…

i5 / i7’s look good at the moment maybe, depending on your budget?

I use a Core2Quad, 2GB ram.
My Slackware run without problem and I can use all the tool I need…

My kubuntu box is a leftover from the compile farm at Trolltech, I found it in the hallway where sysadm had left it to rot. It’s a Pentium 4 with 1GB ram and the HD has a neat propeller sound to it. I’m considering putting it back in the hallway soon.

On my “development” machine, where I develop PowerPoint and Word documents, I have an Intel® Xeon® with 3GB of ram. ;)

I’m using Athlon Neo 64, 2GB ram and ATI Radeon 3400. (Yes, It’s a laptop.) I wanna need for faster machine.

IMO, dev machine should not be the best of best but, at least, shoud be a good machine. How about middle range system with hexa-core and 4 or 8GB ram?

For me any machine will do from a home build linux server to a Toshiba T130 Windows 7 Laptop and a Toshiba Tecra A8 with the latest Ubuntu Lucid on it. I sync between all machines using Git.

I have a Core 2 Duo with 2 GB ram and onboard graphics. It’s a normal configuration I hope and can take on most of the tasks, unless you are working on some gaming graphics or video encoding projects.

AMD Phenom II x4 945, 4 GB ram. IMHO AMD gives You better value for money.

kkrzewniak wrote:

IMHO AMD gives You better value for money.

Have to agree to this one.

AMD Sempron 2200+, 1 Gb ram and Geforce FX 5500 running OpenSuse with KDE <- it’s ok
Mac mini with Intel Dual core something and 2 GB of ram, running OS X
I usually use my old computer :P

Intel Core2Duo T7300, 4 GB RAM and GeForce 9500 running Arch Linux x86_64 with KDE. Enough for development purposes I think.

I guess it all depends on the kind of applications you develop. For my needs, I got myself an Intel Core 2 Quad with 8GB of RAM and a nVidea Quadro FX 1700. But that is mostly because I build software for analysis purposes that needs to run on big datasets fast. The coding is not the issue, the testing of the code is.

What is a must for development for me is a dual screen setup. Could not live without it anymore!

netbook.. ;-)

Intel Core 2 Quad 3GHz proc, 8G RAM, dual screen setup here. Got an El Cheapo radeon in it.

Anyone doing serious coding and not having a dual screen setup should kick their superiors to get a dual screen setup right away (do you work on a 17” desk? You probably don’t).

Intel centrino 2 duo 1.60Ghz 3G Ram, but near me there is a i5 with 4G and Cuda because i use virtualbox for switch linux-windows.

My developnment system is like this:

• HP dx5150 SFF business desktop
• AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2 GHz
• 3 GB RAM
• Debian 6.0 ‘Squeeze’

I’m mainly developing Qt apps for the mobile devices.