Someone really ought to study the psychological effects of giving a faster computer to a programmer. The effects don't last long, but I'm sure that for a while it makes you significantly more productive. I recently upgraded my workstation to (approximately) three times faster machine, and, wow, what a difference it makes. Suddenly compiling Java classes, the set of few that usually are changed at a time, drops from couple of seconds to a blink of an eye, so to speak. All seems so easy; bugs can be squashed and features added.

This all is because I have had switched to Eclipse as my primary, the only, Java development environment, and while I don't mean to complain; that is, I'm OK with it, Eclipse really is rather resource-hog. I quite like code completion, but if it takes several seconds to do the completion, it really begins to annoy. It's perfectly OK to wait longer for a larger build to finish, but sluggishness in text editing is very irritating.