- You need a dedicated work environment where you won't be disturbed by family members walking through. There is a state called 'flow' where you can become extremely productive. Flow can only be reached in longer periods of undisturbed work
- You need a desk with a comfortable office chair
- You need good quality, fast and reliable broadband. There will often be downloads of tools etc. You can't afford to be waiting a long time for those
- You'll need a good laptop (suggest 17 inch screen) or desktop running Windows 10 Pro. An Intel i7 6 series or better (AMD equivalent is fine). It must have at least 8GB ram and at least 500GB SSD. It must have a good quality integrated or separate webcam with microphone
- You need a minimum of two monitors (trust us, numerous studies show dramatic increase in productivity when using two or more monitors). The laptop monitor plus one additional is fine.
- You need a proper mouse (definitely not integrated trackpad or similar on a laptop)
- If you don't already have this equipment, you can make good savings by buying refurbished almost new. If you'd like specific recommendations, please email us
- For budgeting, a good enough laptop should cost around £600, an additional monitor is around £100, a good quality mouse is around £30. A great refurbished desktop can be bought for around £300 plus £200 for two monitors