Dev Machines

“Just as in financial investing, you must invest in your knowledge portfolio regularly.”

― Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

As developers we also need to be constantly investing in updated hardware and good software.  

As a family man I sometimes fall behind in my diligence in this area,  

kids teeth cleanings, healthcare premiums, and back to school clothes can take their toll on the budget. 

Recently though a little wiggle room came in the budget and I purchased a new machine and a few new monitors!

 Asus TUF A17 TUF706QE-MS74  (06/30/2021)

This machine replaces an almost 4 year old Asus laptop Asus GL753VE.  I decided to go with AMD this round

Memory        32 GiB of memory
CPU              AMD Ryzen 7 5800H
Graphics       NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti 
Hard Drive    1 TiB Samsung 980 PRO
                      2 TiB Inland Premium 
OS                 Windows 10 Professsional


Cost                $1,149.99   (Laptop/Win 10 Pro/Samsung Pro 960/2 TiB Firecuda)

Cost w/monitors    $1,925.09

Monitors:

I picked up two 27" Monitors from Costco SE2717HR.
One I paid full price $180 and the other was on
sale at $150 :)


I am not really ready for 4K.  It would be nice...
But between price and it not being mainstream yet...
I think I will wait another 2 years or so then maybe
when I replace this laptop with a new one I will go for the
4K monitors.

Other notable pieces of hardware I use with this machine are...

Yeti Microphone

A great microphone for making screencast, podcasts, or even just for Skype

Skullcandy Hesh 2 Headphones


Good sound at a reasonable price and you can easily replace the cord, which I have had to do.