Interesting how the developers of Windows 3.1 were forced to use relatively low end computers.
The hardware & bandwidth of your average HN reader is likely much better than your users' setups.
Does anyone here keep low end computers on hand for testing? With the proliferation of client-side Javascript processing, hardware is becoming more important. What about testing over dial-up or slow DSL?
Anyone know of an easy way to simulate a slow bandwidth connection? Perhaps tether your MacBook to your iPhone and turn off 3G, to test at Edge speed.
Lowest I go is testing on IE8 in a VM on my MacBook Pro. That's probably not good enough (or... bad enough, technically).
I'd like to see a discussion about this topic. Testing with low end hardware & bandwidth, etc.
The hardware & bandwidth of your average HN reader is likely much better than your users' setups.
Does anyone here keep low end computers on hand for testing? With the proliferation of client-side Javascript processing, hardware is becoming more important. What about testing over dial-up or slow DSL?
Anyone know of an easy way to simulate a slow bandwidth connection? Perhaps tether your MacBook to your iPhone and turn off 3G, to test at Edge speed.
Lowest I go is testing on IE8 in a VM on my MacBook Pro. That's probably not good enough (or... bad enough, technically).
I'd like to see a discussion about this topic. Testing with low end hardware & bandwidth, etc.