Since his "old" laptop was still 4 years younger than my current laptop, I took it. I needed it to record better videos since fraps+my game was too much for my current machine. Nothing else. I was probably going to keep using my machine for development.
I don't like configuring, installing, updating software. I hate it. But since this is a new environment, let's get new stuff.
First impression is I am exposed to a lot of things that have changed...
Is this Windows 7? Woah, this is the future... wait, was I using a 15 year old operating system. Yes.
I still got rid of everything on 7, setting it to "improve speed" option... ahh, lovely '98 gray task bar never leave me.
Installed the latest version of Code::Blocks. wow, nice, lots of new things, better useful autocomplete (in a computer that doesn't stutter). I'm pleased.
New MinGW... c++11 stuff on it? Nice!
New SDL. Apparently 1.2 is old school now. Ok, I have to update to 2.
What do you mean there's OpenGL 4.0?
And... after cursing a little bit with box2d (as usual)... I'm ready to go.
If you had asked me one week ago if my development computer was fine I would have said it was perfect!
Sure, some buttons on my keyboard didn't work and others had to be pressed hard.
Sure it would blue-screen or just freeze ocassionally, no big deal.
Sure it was slightly slow if i tried to do anything else parallel to programming.
But I was happy, really, honestly, I totally got by with a smile (this is not sarcasm).
Now... now that Ive seen what it is to work in a fully functioning computing... I cannot even think of going back to that piece of junk.
And that is the moral of the story kids. Do not try better things. Do not go to fancier restaurants. Keep using the bus. Do not try actual good quality brand shoes. Do not upgrade your electronics. Just don't. You don't need that, as long as you don't try it.
Repeat after me: quality, not even once.
ps: I don't have too much to show because of theses changes, so here is a little gif:
Welcome to 2015 ;)