After talking to one of my friends about purchasing a new computer for his software project, it became quite apparent that developers are in the dark on what to shop for in a new machine. The assumption is to buy the best machine that they can seem to afford. In reality this is throwing money down the rabbit hole. A good development machine only needs three things: processing power, RAM and a decent hard drive. Now to completely blow your mind, the basic Dell Vostro laptop can be more power than most developers will ever need. You don’t need to spend hundreds on upgrades to get it there either.

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