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What are your Mac/PC specs?

Madza on September 26, 2021

It is well known fact, that you don't need a workstation with quantum computing superpowers to be a developer. I work on an average machine too, w...
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Michael J. Ryan

I'm spoiled... I was until later 2019 on an i7-4790k for about 5 years. I then went to a 3950X (since passed to my daughter) and now an R9-5950X with an RTX 3080 and 128GB ram, 2TB Samsung 980 pro... My laptop is an M1 Macbook Air (16gb/1tb).

I'll probably be using what I have now for 4+ years, similar to the 4790k (about 5 years).

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thomasskk

What do you do with 128gb ram ?

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Michael J. Ryan

I'm regularly over 45gb with databases and application stacks while developing. Also wanting to run some ai video upscaling on older content.

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Madza

Thanks for the insight 🚀💯

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Gary Bell

Just got myself a Lenovo P14S AMD Gen 2. It has a ryzen 7, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD and a 4k screen. Currently running Fedora

I ordered it in the sale and saved about 20% so it was cheap compared to others I was looking at. I plan on keeping it for 4+ years.

Previously I had an Asus Zenbook with an i5 and 8GB RAM. Doing anything remotely intensive would lock the system up. The battery was also really iffy (wouldn't always charge)

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Madza

Seems like a great setup, thanks for sharing 🙏❤

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Alvison Hunter Arnuero | Front-End Web Developer • Edited

This is what I use, pal

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Madza

Thanks for the share 😉👍
Also, how do you like Big Sur? 👀

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Alvison Hunter Arnuero | Front-End Web Developer

Not bad, lol.... but not much of a difference as usual, buddy!

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Madza

Haha, awesome, thanks 😉👍

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Rachit Khurana

Mine is a pretty low end PC, (almost 5 years old now)

CPU: Intel Pentium 3rd Gen (G2020) Clock speed: 2.9 GHz
RAM: 4gb
Storage: 240GB SSD
Graphics: None
OS: Ubuntu 20.04 + KDE environment

Only I know how this thing is still a little usable.
The ssd & linux are the only things keeping it alive

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Madza

Thanks for the input 🙏❤

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Cahyo Wicaksono

MacBook pro 2015 retina display, still good for daily activity and for basic video editing

Usually I use for writing code using Visual Studio Code to build website or mobile app using react native

The main issue just the storage is too small, but I can use micro SD for it

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Madza

Awesome, thanks 🙏❤

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Nicat Quliyev

My laptop has 16gb ram, 1tb patriot ssd ryzen7 3700 and gtx1650 4gb
Macbook pro has 16gb 512ssd internal graphics and i5 8th
Enough for soft/mobile and web development

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Madza

Thanks for the share 🙏❤

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Madza

Thanks for the input 🙏❤

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Insidious

Mine is like seriously old lmao
CPU: Intel Core i3 2350m
GPU: Intel HD 3000 or 4000 idk
RAM: 4GB 1866mhz
HDD: WD 500GB 5400rpm SATA 6Gb/s
SSD: no ;-;

It still runs Windows 10 lmao

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Madza

Thanks for sharing 🙏❤

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Prafful Lachhwani • Edited

Dell 7570: Intel core i7 8th gen, 16 Gigs of RAM with 256 GB SSD storage and 1 TB HDD sounds perfect right?

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brandon_wallace

CPU: Intel Celeron 2957U @1.4GHz
RAM: 8GB
HDD: 32GB M.2 SSD
OS: Linux 64bit

Linux runs great on this hardware.

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Madza

Thanks for the input 🙏❤

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NiCK 🇮🇳

Lenovo G470 with 4gb RAM, 256mb ssd, i3 with Linux Mint Cinnamon.. Enough for almost all my needs

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Madza

Thanks for sharing 🙏❤

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sid

I can code on this lol

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Madza

Well... Technically, it is possible on phone, too 😉👍