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Asked: 2026-05-14T02:30:20+00:00

At work, my PC is slow. I feel that I can be way more

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At work, my PC is slow. I feel that I can be way more productive if I just wasn’t waiting for Visual Studio and everything else to respond. My PC isn’t bad (dual-core, 3GB of RAM), but there is a lot of corporate software and whatnot to slow everything down and sometimes lock it up.

Now, some developers have begun getting Windows 7 machines with 8 GB of RAM. Of course, I start salivating at this. However, I was told that I “had to justify” why I should get a new machine.

I can think of a lot of different things, but I am curious as to what every one else on SO would have to say.

NOTE: Ideally, these reasons should be specifically related to .NET development in Visual Studio on a Windows machine. This isn’t a “how can I make my machine faster” question.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Bring in a chess clock.

    If you are waiting start the clock
    when you aren’t stop the clock.

    At the end of day, total up the time
    multiply it by your pay rate,
    multiply it by 2000,
    and that is a reasonable upper limit as
    to the amount of money the company is squandering on you
    per year due to a slow machine

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