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More than memory I find the greatest thing for development is screen real estate.
1x24" landscape
1x24" portrait
1x20" square
1x42" Living room TV
Placing all the VS pallets on the 24" landscape opens up the 24" portrait for the code writing window. The other screens give plenty of room to have reference materials open such as PDF or web page.
This also lets me test in a VMware virtual Windows2k, WinXPsp2, WinVista. This is where more memory would be nice: running the virtual machines while keeping everything else open.
-Clint-
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And if you don't have Visual Studio installed, but click an option from the first question before reading clearly... how the hell do you un-select it? :/
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On my Vista boxes I really want 3 Gig of RAM for 32 bit work. If I had the $ and wasn't ashamed I would bring up everyone with 8-12 Gig on a 64 bit box!
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I've in one dev box 1GB, second dev 2GB at home 3GB. Need to bring the office machines to 4GB at least.
Yusuf
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4GB does not seem to be enough. I've got a 4G machine (Vista) at work with Sql2005 and VS2008 plus MS Office installed. After start with only whatever Windows services and outlook on, 50% are gone.
TOMZ_KV
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Tomz_KV wrote: I've got a 4G machine (Vista)
there you have the source of all your problem 
Yusuf
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Standard is 1 GB at my company for said config, but I got the upgrade because I had to use IntelliJ IDEA  back then, for a while.
Cheers,
Vıkram.
"if abusing me makes you a credible then i better give u the chance which didnt get in real" - Adnan Siddiqi.
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VS 2005 with 4Gb ( XP 32 /3G), VS 2008 under Vista with 4Gb of DD3... and 2 x 8Gb dedicated USB memory stick...it helps and it's cheap..
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The other one is a family PC with may get replaced soon - it has 2 GB of virtual memory. (not kidding) And it's slow as heck.
Just in case, the VS08 machine has a dual-core, 3Ghz Pentium D, and the other is a single-core, 2.4Ghz Celeron.
Chuck Norris has the greatest Poker-Face of all time. He won the 1983 World Series of Poker, despite holding only a Joker, a Get out of Jail Free Monopoloy card, a 2 of clubs, 7 of spades and a green #4 card from the game UNO.
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So I voted "512MB or more"
:b
Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency!
-Emily Dickinson
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blond? 
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For around $850US everyone got a new machine with 750GB or better HD, 4GB (PC6400 DDR2) and a 2.6GHz dual core processor. We are using 32 bit XP SP3 and have VC6, .net 2003 and .net 2005 since we get VC and Office under our yearly academic license.
John
modified on Monday, August 4, 2008 2:10 PM
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I get virtual memory errors all the time - sometimes even my sqlclient crashes with the message "not enough memory to complete operation". I never knew that error existed until now (btw, I'm not even using my local sql instance - that's using a remote instance - aaarrrggg!). I have asked and asked for more ram, but no luck. I have to shut down my web browser and VS instances all the time to clean up and start over. I even tried taking extra ram from machines of employees who recently left - but it wasn't compatible with my machine. So not only does everyone else have MORE ram than I do, but its better ram!
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Funny, Vista and apps like VS, Skype, Pidgin, Live Mail, Norton, and Sidebar run in 1GB smoothly. At the same time.
Chuck Norris has the greatest Poker-Face of all time. He won the 1983 World Series of Poker, despite holding only a Joker, a Get out of Jail Free Monopoloy card, a 2 of clubs, 7 of spades and a green #4 card from the game UNO.
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My main dev box is a machine running Windows XP SP2 and VS 2008. 256 Mb of DDR2 RAM. Shame.
(My main Linux box, on which I run Code::Blocks, has 1 Gb of memory. I don't develop as much on Linux though)
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It's swapping like mad too.  
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I have 2GB in office and 3GB at home.
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Work PC: 3.0GHz Xeon (single core) and just got upgraded to 2GB a couple of months ago. It's a whole lot better, particularly since I use a VM to run a not-really-local-machine copy of SQLServer.
The difference is considerable. The RAM split went from 750MB/250MB, inadequate for both, to 1.5GB/0.5GB). The only thing that runs slow on VS2008 is certain app's taking a very long time to load designer mode. This problem was there for VS2003, as well). Attributed to the somewhat live status of the design - I'm learning to program to avoid this hassle.
What would really speed up my world is a bigger faster HD. I expect I'll get a new system before I get the new HD.
At home, Three systems (not counting an old Win95/DOS 6.1 box) that I seriously need to upgrade. I've seen some bare-bones kits that would cause palpitations - but then I remember the trouble that Windows has with putting a bootable HD into a new system, and how long it take me to install all my stuff. So I bite my lip and go on.*
After I get paid for a secondary contract, maybe I'll squander a little of the loot on myself.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"How do you find out if you're unwanted if everyone you try to ask tells you to go away?" - Balboos HaGadol
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Machine at home has VS2005 and 2G and needs a faster disk.
Machine at work has VS2008 and VC6  and 2G
Build Server has VS2008 and 4G and VC6 in a VM
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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I envy you! You have VC6 at work!
To those who understand, I extend my hand.
To the doubtful I demand: Take me as I am.
Not under your command, I know where I stand.
I won't change to fit yout plan. Take me as I am.
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It's stale stale stale stale.
The compiler limitations give me fits.
You can't run Linkify[^].
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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I can't imagine that it's such a resource hog that you need 8GB. How much memory does it actaully use?
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