I am currently running 24gb ram and would use more. But I have a combination of VM use, photography (ram goes fast when you have 24mp raw) gaming and other strange tasks going. On Sep 6, 2017 1:48 PM, "Carruth, Rusty" wrote: > Well, we've kind of strayed from the original topic, so I'll do a > pre-emptive strike and change the subject. Hopefully nobody gets mad... > > So, I'm impressed by the memory/cpu load that Mr Graham has on his > computer. And I thought I was a hog... er, I mean heavy resource user! (I > once was moved to my own personal Sun Sparc computer because I kept beating > up the shared one getting work done...) > > But I agree with him that 16G is getting close to the minimum required > amount if you do much web browsing with lots of tabs (Ok, he didn't exactly > say that, but it was implied). (Moment of openness - I once had 50 tabs in > a single Firefox window, and there were at least 4 other Firefox windows > running. At this point in time, I have 17 firefox windows running, with a > total of 32+5+14+17+10+17+32+30+14+98+12+60+16+1+12+3+18+40. Whoa, that > even surprised me. Anyway, 'only' 5G of ram in use on this 16G windows > machine...) > > Also, I don't consider a thin client to be useful for anything but a work > machine which is unable to leave the office. Too many ways to have things > not work (or be hacked/etc).. IMHO, of course :-) > > Rusty > > -----Original Message----- > From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On > Behalf Of Matt Graham > Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 1:38 PM > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Re: Warranty!!?!?!?!?! > > On 2017-09-06 12:26, techlists@phpcoderusa.com wrote: > > What are you doing that requires a top of the line CPU, 32G RAM, and a > > 1T SSD? > > Android development? :-) An Android project someone else put together > here uses some sort of library or syntactic sugar combination that makes > compiles peg the CPU for several minutes when one line of one file's > changed. (Java's always been a bloated sack, but this is kind of > unusual.) > > > Given that [using someone else's computer as a vital part of whatever > > you're doing], a baseline laptop with decent graphics, 8G RAM, and a > > 128G SSD should be enough. > > Maybe for some really lightweight use cases. git assumes you have > infinite storage space. Any nontrivial node.js project will eat 512M in > node_modules dependencies. The Android Studio support directory here is > 42G. The graphic design people here said that there was no way they could > get by with machines that had only 256G SSDs, because .psd files are huge. > And these are work machines. You'd have to add the space music and media > collections take up to personal machines. > > > Unless one is running many local virtual machines, doing some serious > > video or image work, or doing lots of compiling... I am think the > > cloud and thin client hardware is the way to go. > > If you have a 100% reliable and fast network, and your disk space needs > are tiny, and your external service provider won't die, this *might* work. > Being able to work (and play) on a personal machine without external > dependencies is useful in enough circumstances that I wouldn't consider > buying a thin client as anything other than a toy. > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss