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There’s a phrase: We are now in an era of abundant of processing power. While I certainly agree about this phrase – I believe it myself too – for some field no processing power is enough; namely graphics and video field.

I also work in such field, and I have got quite a powerful main rig (that I can afford). My main rig is Intel Core i7 2630QM Sandy Bridge (2.0GHz, Quad-code, mobile) with 16GB RAM running Windows 7. While might not sound as powerful as you might think (it still struggles on large After Effect composition, for example), it’s certainly more powerful than many new computer today.

Another field that screams for processing power is programming. While text editing (and yes, programming is just text editing) is not a burden on computer itself, compiling and testing sure do. Some program takes long time to compile even on fast processors. When testing, it’s very common to lunch virtual machines, which consumes quite a bit of RAM. Also, some IDE also takes a lot of RAM and processing power to provide better insight of code to programmer.