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Re:Why Software is Expensive by Retric on Monday October 05, 2009 @09:10AM (#861700)
Cheep programmers = buy cheep PC's. You can get a lot of HW for 300$.

Edit: Ok, I understand the downvotes, but I spent a lot of time developing on HW far worse than what 300$ can buy you today.

  From dell:
  Starting Price  $269 
  Windows  
  AMD Sempron™ LE-1300 (2.3GHz, 800MHz, 512KB)
  2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz
  320GB4 Serial ATA Hard Drive
PS: I would still suggest 2 x 17+" monitors but those are not that expencive.
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Re:Why Software is Expensive by scotty79 on Monday October 05, 2009 @10:50AM (#861887)
Maybe you are being downvoted for spelling cheap as cheep or maybe some programmers feel offended by your "cheap programmers" that sounds degrading. "Less affluent programmers can buy cheaper PC's" sounds better.
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