I use a HP Proliant Microserver, cost £100 and added memory and disks for another couple of hundred
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So now I am worried, am I being deceived, just how much sugar is really in a spoon full!Comment
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Originally posted by Boney M View PostI use a HP Proliant Microserver, cost £100 and added memory and disks for another couple of hundredThe greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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I've been down this road and you end up spending a lot of cash and are often disappointed with the results.
I have specced and built a FO big gamers desktop, banged all my VMs on there and access them remotely over VPN.
If it's good enough for the big boys, it's good enough for me.Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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Current setup:
MacBook Pro 13 (early 2015), maxed out (i7, 1TB SSD, 16GB).
I run Windows 10 Pro on Parallels Desktop as a dev machine. Visual Studio + SQL Server Management Studio. 3 cores + about 6GB in memory allocated makes it more than reasonably quick.
Had a Sony Vaio Pro Touch 13 before but it just didn't cut the mustard having only 8GB of memory and 128GB SSD.
Verdict: I like it a lot, plenty of oomph from the i7 (5557U) and very portable. Happy with it as a dev machine for the side project. Occasionally I toy with the quad core big brother 15 inch but it's just too heavy and bulky.Comment
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