“Just as in financial investing, you must invest in your knowledge portfolio regularly.”
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As developers we also need to be constantly investing in updated hardware and good software.
As a family man I sometimes fall behind in my diligence in this area,
kids teeth cleanings, healthcare premiums, and back to school clothes can take their toll on the budget.
Recently though a little wiggle room came in the budget and I purchased a new machine and a few new monitors!
ASUS GL753VE (08/21/2017)
This machine replaces a 7 year old HP machine dv7-4295us. I
Memory 16 GiB of memory
CPU i7-7700HQ @ 2.80 GHz
Graphics GTX 1050Ti 4GB
Hard Drive 512GiB Samsung 960 Pro
2TiB Firecuda
OS Windows 10 Professsional
Cost $1,596.06 (Laptop/Win 10 Pro/Samsung Pro 960/2 TiB Firecuda)
Cost w/monitors $1,943.90
CPU i7-7700HQ @ 2.80 GHz
Graphics GTX 1050Ti 4GB
Hard Drive 512GiB Samsung 960 Pro
2TiB Firecuda
OS Windows 10 Professsional
Cost $1,596.06 (Laptop/Win 10 Pro/Samsung Pro 960/2 TiB Firecuda)
Cost w/monitors $1,943.90
Upgrades:
512 GiB Samsung 960 Pro NVME drive... its super fast
2 TiB Firecuda drive
(I like having 2 hard drives on my machine, maybe when 1 TiB SSDs get cheap I may change my mind)
Monitors:
I picked up two 27" Monitors from Costco SE2717HR.
One I paid full price $180 and the other was on
sale at $150 :)
I am not really ready for 4K. It would be nice...
But between price and it not being mainstream yet...
I think I will wait another 2 years or so then maybe
when I replace this laptop with a new one I will go for the
4K monitors.
One I paid full price $180 and the other was on
sale at $150 :)
I am not really ready for 4K. It would be nice...
But between price and it not being mainstream yet...
I think I will wait another 2 years or so then maybe
when I replace this laptop with a new one I will go for the
4K monitors.
Other notable pieces of hardware I use with this machine are...
Yeti Microphone
A great microphone for making screencast, podcasts, or even just for Skype