Survey Results - How old is your main development machine?

HP ProDesk 600 G4 SFF. I know it's an overkill, but the boss pays for it. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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You can also customize the build. So the model and make does not matter a lot, you have several choices among the processor, memory, intel optane memory (unnecessary if you're going with SSDs which you should), what kind of Real time data backup you want (only RAID 1 is available). Also, the price varies accordingly.
Mine I think will be relevant for the next 3 years at the least.

This is an IBM "portable" PC from the early '80s, with a built-in CGA monitor, enormous power supply, and back-breaking metal construction. Probably nuclear EMP-proof, too.

It has long since stopped being my "main" development machine.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

You still haven't answered the OP's original question: How old is your "main" development machine? Smile | :)

I did, in the survey. 3-5 years.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

My employer just issued me a new laptop on Friday. It'll probably be weeks until I'm productive again.

My employer made the mistake of buying us $4500 laptops, at the time they were state of the art thinkpads with the brand new mobile PIII chips. They were hot back then. I played GTA3 on it just to see if it could do it (it could)

Yeah, that was a productivity killer. The machine would be an utter dog these days but oh well.

When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

Option	Votes	%
It's brand new	47	4.63
Less than a year old	105	10.34
1 - 3 years old	329	32.41
3- 5 years old	245	24.14
5 - 7 years old	156	15.37
7 - 10 years old	75	7.39
10 - 15 years old	24	2.36
15 - 25 years old	14	1.38
Over 25 years old	8	0.79
I don't have a "main" work machine.	12	1.18
Total	1,015	100%