Coding Horror: Understanding The Hardware

Great article from Jeff Atwood that echos my views and opinions about what hardware to buy for what reasons, though I learnt a couple of new things from it: it’s better to go for a high-speed dual core for the time being for most cases, and RAM speed has very little influence on overall performance – instead bigger is better (though I think saying “there’s no reason not to get 8GB” is a bit extreme, but from a developers point of view I can see where he is coming from)