Avoiding the cost of buying all that hardware N天2⑧ If you are clearly a software developer with some reputation, you can often have hardware donated or loaned for testing purposes 383 Some companies ask their employees to bring in units from home to run on the tests with some incentive of course) Another possibility-outsource Note the locations of hardware specs. Most are on the web11 Avoiding the cost of buying all that hardware ... If you are clearly a software developer with some reputation, you can often have hardware donated or loaned for testing purposes. Some companies ask their employees to bring in units from home to run on the tests (with some incentive, of course). Another possibility- outsource. Note the locations of hardware specs. Most are on the web. Zhu.Kerry@gmail.com