[Qt-interest] [OT] Re: suggestion about macbook & qt

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 01/14/2011 01:48 PM, Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Friday 14 January 2011 10:54:05 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 01/14/2011 11:28 AM, Sean Harmer wrote:
>>> On Thursday 13 January 2011 22:26:25 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>> Don't see anything wrong with it.  Especially since development work is
>>>> not a demanding task.
>>>
>>> lol. I spend a lot of my time telling my boss the exact opposite! :-)
>>
>> I guess I just produced a sentence that might end up in fortune-mod :-P
>>    Should have put a "demanding (hardware-wise)" in there...
>
> Once your software-project is more then 5 cpp-files and you need to rebuilt
> everything for buildsystem-fixes, you will disagree with the "not demanding".

If you're developing OpenOffice, yes, it's demanding ;-)  But of course 
I was talking about the average stuff we do.  To give an example, a 
project I'm maintaining consists of exactly 312 source+header files and 
104.652 lines of code (comments not counted in this.)  Building on a 
2.4GHz Core 2 Duo machine with 3GB of RAM takes about 70 seconds.  The 
OP's system is not too far away performance-wise from that system, so I 
guess it will be more than adequate for dev work.

I also run valgrind and that is indeed a bit of a pain.  But still, it's 
not something you run often.

> When your sales department gets two screens each just for browsing and looking
> at some calculation-sheets, how many screens do your developers get for
> writing code, reading docs, working with the bug-tracker/project-management,
> watching compile-output, running the app and stay in touch with the rest
> through mail, chat/im and web?

I've only got one since I need to pay for it myself ;-P