Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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by vaughan • 15 years ago

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Just wondering what hardware fellow Hackers are using to write software. Laptop/desktop/monitors/etc.

vaughan• 15 years ago

MacBook Pro 13" 2009 C2D 2.66 4GB

Dell 24"

Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0

jfb2• 15 years ago

Bigass Macbook Pro with 27" monitor. Kinesis keyboard, J. Random large mouse (I have huge hands). Software, primarily Emacs, some Xcode.

nuclearsandwich2• 15 years ago

I recognized your buildout and thought "huh, looks like JFB... oh it is JFB."

jfb2• 15 years ago

Creature of habit.

mcarrano• 15 years ago

Macbook Pro 13' 2011, Acer 24" Monitor

there• 15 years ago

11" macbook air, usually looking at 3 tiled xterms under ratpoison on desktop 1, firefox in desktop 2

standup desk - http://www.flickr.com/photos/symmetricalism/5488994391/ (i've since gotten rid of the cinema display)

twog• 15 years ago

what are you using for your network monitor?

nantes• 15 years ago

2009 Mac Mini w/8GB RAM with dual 22" LCD's with a Synergy-connected 14.3" Ubuntu 10.10 laptop.

PyCharm for Django development, vim and PhpStorm for PHP, a little Xcode as I learn iOS programming.

nuclearsandwich2• 15 years ago

- Standing station (technically sit-stand but I never sit). - Imprint Runner floor mat - Macbook Pro 8GB, 2.5GHz Core i7, SSD - 25inch Asus Monitor - Das Keyboard Ultimate (recently switch to silent after complaints from coworkers) - Logitech G5 Gaming Mouse (a good mouse is a weighted mouse) - Reasonably crappy Sennheiser headphones - Vim and iTerm in full screen, occasionally switch to X/XMonad+urxvt when I start missing proper window managers.

kingofspain• 15 years ago

At the risk of looking the odd one out (no Mac here!), I use a dusty Dell tower (8GB RAM, 3x24" screen) and my 13" HP laptop, though I've been working almost exclusively off the laptop for the past few weeks - with a dirt cheap TeckNet wireless mouse that is by far the most comfortable mouse I've ever used.

steventruong• 15 years ago

Image: http://bit.ly/uszUar

2010 15" Macbook Pro: 2.66GHz Core i7 Processor, Hi-Res Anti-Glare Screen, 8GB Ram, 512GB SSD

30" Apple Cinemas Display

Wireless Bluetooth Mac Keyboard

Logitech M705 Mouse

Razer Vespula Mouse Pad

Spare cheap Logitech Cord Mouse

Apple Trackpad

Logitech Z-2300 Speakers

10 USB Pluggable Hub

Samson C03U Microphone

chrisbennet• 15 years ago

A T400 Thinkpad laptop (closed) running XP (!) and a couple of decent 24" monitors and a decent chair.

My person dev setup is a 17" macbookpro and a nice 24" monitor.

I'm also a huge fan of the Logitech cordless mice with the tiny USB "nub" transmitter and scroll wheels that spin freely.

dsantos• 15 years ago

i switched from this: http://imgur.com/QBQNt.jpg to this: http://imgur.com/No4os.jpg and to this: http://imgur.com/JVqRa.jpg and now i am basically using the macbook pro

farb• 15 years ago

Out of curiosity: why did you made the switch from a bigger monitor to the smaller display of the macbook?

chrisnelson• 15 years ago

i7 3.4ghz, 16GB DDR3 Hackintosh with a 23inch IPS Dell.

sixtofour• 15 years ago

Compqrap laptop, linux browser, terminal/shell/ssh. Work and browse on desktop 1, minimal monitoring on desktop 2.

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