What is the best comfortable hardware configuration for web programmers?

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Published on 2010-03-20T03:43:57Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 3:51 UTC
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I mean, do programmers need very fast computers with amazing video cards or just standard ones. Is it better to use 1 or 2 monitors? Some applications consume a lot of resources like Netbeans or Eclipse and sometimes developers need to install databases, graphic design applications, web design applications, web servers in their own computers for testing purposes.

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