You guys must work at smaller companies. When I did, the computers were at least up to date. I can't believe I'm a software developer for a fortune 500 company and the computers at work freeze every time I write and compile a line of code. We have dual core AMD machines that run windows xp 32 bit yet they have 8gb of ram. What ? A 32 bit os with 8gb of ram ? I explained this to IT yet they don't know what I'm talking about. You try developing a giant enterprise java project on these beasts. I swear half of my day is cleaning the pc and rebooting my WebSphere server to debug a few code files.
I feel like everytime I'm at work and I get productive the pc just decides to call it quits. They have all kinds of bloat and monitoring software on it its ridiculous. We are supposedly getting newer machines but not everyone is getting them. Oh pc running slow , clear cache and reboot. Which takes about total of 25 to 30 min.
i work at a fortune 500 company with 20000 employes globally, IT budget gets cut every year
standard PC they give out now is a HP running an I5 2400s with 4 gigs of ram, win 7, with a 19 in montor running 1280x1024
laptops are similar standard is a 13, super portable is a 11
developers/cad people can get Z800 workstations or bigger laptops.
my laptop runs 1280 *800 and is a cort 2 duo
we went to win 7 ~6 months ago