Re: Information gathering exercise

Here is the summary I promised back in February.

The median system had a 4 core CPU with 4GB of RAM and a 205GB HD.

This is based on a grand total of 7 responses.

All I have to do is await the return of the CEO from his fact
gathering sales trip and see where that gets me.

Thanks to everyone that provided data.

regards,

Gordon

On 19 February 2010 10:14, Gordon Milne <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am attempting to get my team (all three of us) hardware upgrades for
> our development activities. And I need your help.
>
> We are currently running on 2.4GHz Pentium 4 desktops that are maxed
> out with 2GB RAM and around 100GB disk (usually made up of a 30GB
> system drive and a 70GB data drive). The original systems were 512MB
> RAM and a 30GB disk drive. Each desktop has a 22inch and 19inch
> monitor attached to it. Our work centres around Java technologies with
> some Linux for a complex scientific instrument. Our principle IDE is
> IDEA. One of the guys won't use IDEA past version 6 due to lack of
> responsiveness. I use release 8 and put up with the sluggishness on my
> ancient hardware. But, I have had enough of this self abuse and
> bruising of my brain.
>
> How can you help me?
>
> Well it looks as if it is going to be very hard for me to get any
> monies for upgrades the way the budget, under the CEO-elect, is
> shaping up. Apparently, he had someone visit our offices recently and
> that person pronounced our systems as old, but good enough. I never
> met this person. No one on my team met this person. So I have no idea
> how he gauged our systems suitability for purpose.
>
> Sheesh!
>
> Anyway, back to that helping thing.
>
> I'd like to know what kind of hardware you are developing on. I am
> interested in the processor , the RAM and the disk size. If you can
> also give me some idea of the principle development task that might be
> useful too. I am less interested in the OS you are using. I intend
> using this information as data to push my argument for desktop
> upgrades.
>
> I will post a summary of responses in around a month's time in case
> the information is useful to others.
>
> Finally, I would be grateful if you can tell me your locality. I am
> based in Christchurch, New Zealand and I get the feeling that my
> CEO-elect might be more responsive to my needs if I can show that
> other, local companies, are.
>
> I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks for your assistance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gordon J Milne
>
> p.s. FWIW, my gut feel, given the age of our machines, and how long it
> takes for us to replace hardware, was that we should upgrade to quad
> core desktops with 4GB RAM that can be grown to 16GB. As for disk, I
> was aiming to start with 500GB drives. I am using a very naive metric
> for this upgrade but our current CPUs have a passmark
> (http://www.cpubenchmark.net) of 322 and I'd like to see us working
> with systems having a passmark of 4000 or more.
>