Re: slowest productivity
following on..
at least 8GB and the fastest processor you can afford
and definately a solid state [SSD] drive, for the system drive at least, both if you use a different drive for active data
the SSD will make a difference, though whether you will notice depends as chris said on what else your computer is doing... but if you use HDD you only are building in slowness from the start; HDD fine for archive and storage, but for running system processess on they are slow in comparison and that slows everything down that cannot be done entirely in RAM which is not as much as you might think [even more important if your RAM is low]
cpuid is useful for monitoring system parameters generally, I use it for keeping an eye on cpu temps when rendering/recoding video which is very system resource heavy.. but of limited use for specific programs, because as said modern windows OS is always running lots of things at once in the background at least
final point: if your SSD is relatively small, and you RAM is high, avoid hibernating the computer, as the hib file will be big and will eat into the SSD free space
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