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There were a number of problems with trying to do development on my old laptop:

1. It was Claire’s and she wanted it back.
2. The screen was 1024×768, which isn’t quite enough to productively fit all the Eclipse windows in.
3. It was slow.
4. It had no Z key.
5. It turned off randomly (quite frequently too)
6. It had woefully little RAM: 512MB. That’s enough for one session of Eclipse/Carbide. It’s just about enough for one session of Eclipse/Carbide plus one copy of Symbian OS being debugged. But it definitely wasn’t enough for a session of Eclipse/Carbide debugging another session of Eclipse/Carbide, debugging Symbian OS.

For all these reasons, my change-test-debug cycle was at least 15 minutes. That’s madness. It’s impossible to avoid getting distracted whilst Eclipse is taking 10 minutes to load. So that’s why I’m very excited that I’ve got a new Intel Mac laptop which can run Windows via Parallels. (And is currently doing so!)

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