Best Laptop For Development
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What is the best Laptop for doing .Net developement. working with large databases, image and file manipulation. Our company usually purchases Dell Laptops. I was looking at the Dell Inpiron 9400 100 Gig 7200 RPM Drive 1 gig ram ATI Video card The biggest drawback I see with this laptop is that it doesn't have a docking station like the Latitude series has. Please if you have any suggestions let me know. Thanks
GSC
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What is the best Laptop for doing .Net developement. working with large databases, image and file manipulation. Our company usually purchases Dell Laptops. I was looking at the Dell Inpiron 9400 100 Gig 7200 RPM Drive 1 gig ram ATI Video card The biggest drawback I see with this laptop is that it doesn't have a docking station like the Latitude series has. Please if you have any suggestions let me know. Thanks
GSC
I think the biggest drawback to that laptop is that its a Dell ;)
"a fool will not learn from a wise man, but a wise man will learn from a fool" "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt "Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
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I think the biggest drawback to that laptop is that its a Dell ;)
"a fool will not learn from a wise man, but a wise man will learn from a fool" "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt "Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
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Any suggestions on the best laptop for performance, stability and of course price. Thanks
GSC
Well I am not really sure, what the best is but I can tell you what I have been using for the last year or so. I use a toshiba Satelite Pro, I extended the memory on it, so I basically have 1 GIG, and it works like a dream, I have no complaints. I have VS2003, VS 2005, SQL server 2000, sql 2005, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Opera Browser, The Whole Office Suite, Firefox, and a myriad of other programmes, a couple of games on there, Broadband Internet and it hasn't complained once! I watch DVD's on it. I think I only paid about £500 for it. I have left it running for weeks on end on my home desk, it never complains. I am definetly considering another toshiba early next year!!
"a fool will not learn from a wise man, but a wise man will learn from a fool" "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt "Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
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What is the best Laptop for doing .Net developement. working with large databases, image and file manipulation. Our company usually purchases Dell Laptops. I was looking at the Dell Inpiron 9400 100 Gig 7200 RPM Drive 1 gig ram ATI Video card The biggest drawback I see with this laptop is that it doesn't have a docking station like the Latitude series has. Please if you have any suggestions let me know. Thanks
GSC
My Alienware m9700 rocks for dev. I got it specifically for the 17" screen and big keyboard. It's not one you'd want to carry around all the time, though (yeah it's heavy).
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What is the best Laptop for doing .Net developement. working with large databases, image and file manipulation. Our company usually purchases Dell Laptops. I was looking at the Dell Inpiron 9400 100 Gig 7200 RPM Drive 1 gig ram ATI Video card The biggest drawback I see with this laptop is that it doesn't have a docking station like the Latitude series has. Please if you have any suggestions let me know. Thanks
GSC
I've got a Latitude D820, without a docking station. But it's got a nice screen - not that TrueLife cr*p that the consumer-level models have. But even with a 1.66 GHz proc / 7200 rpm drive / basic video card / 1Gb ram I get some of the fastest compilation speeds I have ever seen! Or maybe that's 'cause I'm not including any Windows files... But in any case, I've been *very* happy with it. Just a hint, if you didn't think of this already - make sure you get the OS installation disks - and XP pro, at that. Not home or mce. That way you can wipe your hard drive and get rid of all the OEM stuff that's pre-installed. And then install drivers via Windows to avoid even more unwanted software. My .02 cents ;) Mike