>>>>I am starting to spend a lot more time in Visual Studio 2012 and am already growing aggravated with the unbelievably slowness, especially when it loads. This machine has an AMD Phenom II X4 820 processor running at 2.80 GHz with 6 GB of memory, lots of free space on the hard drive. Can anyone recommend a machine that will make VS run like greased lightning? Everything else I use runs with acceptable speed.
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>>>>Thanks in advance for any advice, especially if you are a VS 2012 user.
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>>>6 gb of ram?
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>>>I use 512mb of ram and my dev environments are fast.
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>>Notepad ? :-}
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>I know people who actually do code HTML in Notepad. That boggles my mind.


Boggles your mind?

What tools do you use and how do they help?

Given that HTML and CSS are text files and define pages semantically I don't really see what other tools could do to make it any easier.

The basic text editors on Linux can do syntax highlighting for just about anything so maybe that's why I dont see the advantage of a fancier tool.

Ive also written 3000 lines of JavaScript in a text editor. Even if you are using libraries youre too lazy to read the docs for any JavaScript console in web browsers gives you intellisense for exploring.

Its all so dirt simple you shouldnt need 6gb to make it work well.

Ive never personally used a computer to do work with more than a half gig of ram.

Its a total waste of resources.