What does everyone use as a dev PC?

[Guest utternoob]

Hi all

I'm thinking of getting a PC to use mostly for android development, but with a small windows partition for normal use. What would you recommend looking for and what would I get for around £300-400 at the max?

Found this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B008HAP9QU/ref=aw_d_detail?pd=1&qid=1352802095&sr=1-26 Is it any good?

Cheers

Terry

Edited November 13, 2012 by utternoob

[Guest omegavesko]

It will be more than enough. Android development really isn't all that resource intensive.

Just to clear things up though, do you mean app development or ROM development?

[Guest utternoob]

Rom Development

[Guest tilal6991]

Buy a core i3/i5 PC. Get a load of ram from another place and a ssd built into the laptop if its in budget.

That should be good enough.

[Guest utternoob]

Good point. Only thing is, I don't have a body or anything to put it in, and large SSD units are really expensive

[Guest hugobosslives]

Does it need a graphics card or will it never be used for 3d modeling/games?

Can you build it yourself or do you need prebuilt?

If your building it yourself get a 3rd gen i5, 16gb ram, 1tb+ HDD and 500W power supply, cheap case etc

Or go for something prebuilt like the i5's down this half-built bundles here http://www.novatech.co.uk/barebonebundles/

[Guest utternoob]

Not gonna be graphics heavy, probably preferred pre-built but I could easily put a few things together

[Guest razzmataz1478]

Hm, here's my specs:

i5-2320

8GB Ram

1.5TB Hard rive (no SSD :( )

2GB Graphics card

all for just under 300 quid prebuilt (refurb advent from the currys/pcworld ebay)

[Guest utternoob]

Not bad. I'll have a look on their store

[Guest razzmataz1478]

Not bad. I'll have a look on their store

Just looked and there's nothing really value for money there.

[Guest utternoob]

Ah right. I may be waiting for a bit, but it doesn't really matter now, just keeping an eye out

[Guest razzmataz1478]

Ah right. I may be waiting for a bit, but it doesn't really matter now, just keeping an eye out

You need to d/load the hukd app, set some alert keywords and see if anything comes up.

[Guest utternoob]

I shall do that. Apparently they are quite good

[Guest razzmataz1478]

I shall do that. Apparently they are quite good

They are, use them all the time, it's how I came across my PC!

[Guest utternoob]

Wow. I think quite a lot of people reccomend them

Edit: App is so unintuitive. Can't understand it much

Edited November 13, 2012 by utternoob

[Guest razzmataz1478]

Wow. I think quite a lot of people reccomend them

Edit: App is so unintuitive. Can't understand it much

Yeah I know, particularly the fact that they left the menu button out annoyed me. Have you set alerts?

[Guest utternoob]

Yep. Found one for £239 on eBay only downside is AMD Bulldozer inside

[Guest razzmataz1478]

Yep. Found one for £239 on eBay only downside is AMD Bulldozer inside

Avoid.

[Guest utternoob]

Thought so. Ah well :( might just have to wait until a relative gets a new PC and take apart the old one and spec it up

[Guest C3C0]

Mine is more than a year old HP ProBook 4520s with i3, 3gb ram and 80 gb linux partition (300 gb total at 7500rpm)

[Guest hugobosslives]

the important thing to remember is that the pc doesn't need to be amazing to dev on.

unless you will be building alot (say 1+ a day) then its fine getting a mid spec pc.

when i used to make cm7 builds on the blade i would do it on my laptop (i5-2410m, 8gb ram) and it could build for 35 mins whilst I cooked my dinner :D

[Guest utternoob]

Haha. I'm not going to dev that much, perhaps every few days if anything changes