Centrino's for a developer notebook? Media Edition?
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Christian, what model Dell? This are my own opinions. You know the rest.....
Precision M20, with a few extras ( RAM and spare battery mostly ) Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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Precision M20, with a few extras ( RAM and spare battery mostly ) Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
if any of you read CPU magazine they just had an article in it about building your own laptop. I plan on doing that soon :) Of course as an AMD man i'm going with an AMD.
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Hi gang, I'm replacing my company owned machine with a personal machine. That means a pocketbook hit... I've been looking at several options.. What do you all think of a Centrio machine for development? So I be looking at the HT Pentium machines instead? What about the AMD 64 systems? Does Multi Media Edition satisfy the requirements for Studio installations (Including 2005?) Thanks for any advice. Nick This are my own opinions. You know the rest.....
I have a IBM T41p. Centrino 1.7, 2 gig of ram. So cooool. VS 2003, Virtual PC with Oracle 10g, and it goes fine.... Free your mind...
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Hi gang, I'm replacing my company owned machine with a personal machine. That means a pocketbook hit... I've been looking at several options.. What do you all think of a Centrio machine for development? So I be looking at the HT Pentium machines instead? What about the AMD 64 systems? Does Multi Media Edition satisfy the requirements for Studio installations (Including 2005?) Thanks for any advice. Nick This are my own opinions. You know the rest.....
I do VS.NET dev on a Dell 810 Pent M 2Ghz, 2GB RAM, 60GB 7500RPM drive. Works like a charm for dev. As for you, it is also my personaly machine, so i do outwook/word/excel as well, usually at the same time as dev. Sean
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Hi gang, I'm replacing my company owned machine with a personal machine. That means a pocketbook hit... I've been looking at several options.. What do you all think of a Centrio machine for development? So I be looking at the HT Pentium machines instead? What about the AMD 64 systems? Does Multi Media Edition satisfy the requirements for Studio installations (Including 2005?) Thanks for any advice. Nick This are my own opinions. You know the rest.....
I upgraded my laptop to a 7200RPM drive and that had a much bigger effect then upgrading the RAM or anything else. The processor is fast, but was cramped by the slow HDD. My wife's Athlon 1700+ desktop with 2 gigs of ram and some really fast drives out performs the P4 system at work for most operations even though it's processor is over twice as fast.
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Hi gang, I'm replacing my company owned machine with a personal machine. That means a pocketbook hit... I've been looking at several options.. What do you all think of a Centrio machine for development? So I be looking at the HT Pentium machines instead? What about the AMD 64 systems? Does Multi Media Edition satisfy the requirements for Studio installations (Including 2005?) Thanks for any advice. Nick This are my own opinions. You know the rest.....
Ditto Andy's comment about hard drive speed - pretty much more important than anything else on a laptop. I have an Asus custom built laptop, Centrino 1.7 GHz, 1 Gig RAM, 7200 RPM Drive, Extra Battery, Internal Wireless-G. Couldn't ask for a better machine. Having the wireless and the extra battery has allowed me to work in airports and such while travelling which has been a huge bonus. Cheers, Drew.
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Hi gang, I'm replacing my company owned machine with a personal machine. That means a pocketbook hit... I've been looking at several options.. What do you all think of a Centrio machine for development? So I be looking at the HT Pentium machines instead? What about the AMD 64 systems? Does Multi Media Edition satisfy the requirements for Studio installations (Including 2005?) Thanks for any advice. Nick This are my own opinions. You know the rest.....
I'm using an AMD64 3400+ laptop, 1GB RAM, 7200rpm hard drive (that's an important upgrade - if you can, get a fast hard drive!) and SXGA+ screen (1400x1050). However, I'm pretty sure a 1.7-2GHz Pentium M would be just as good. Best development machine I've ever used.... Anyway - important things -
- 1GB RAM
- fast hard drive (as I said 7200 rather than the 5400 or 4200 rpm cr*p laptops normally have)
- XP Pro, not Home, so you can develop as a limited user (you just need to be a member of Debugger Users, or something like that!
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Hi gang, I'm replacing my company owned machine with a personal machine. That means a pocketbook hit... I've been looking at several options.. What do you all think of a Centrio machine for development? So I be looking at the HT Pentium machines instead? What about the AMD 64 systems? Does Multi Media Edition satisfy the requirements for Studio installations (Including 2005?) Thanks for any advice. Nick This are my own opinions. You know the rest.....
I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 1.86 Pentium M, definately recommended. Best bang for buck especially when purchased from the Dell outlet store, or can be customized if you like.
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Hi gang, I'm replacing my company owned machine with a personal machine. That means a pocketbook hit... I've been looking at several options.. What do you all think of a Centrio machine for development? So I be looking at the HT Pentium machines instead? What about the AMD 64 systems? Does Multi Media Edition satisfy the requirements for Studio installations (Including 2005?) Thanks for any advice. Nick This are my own opinions. You know the rest.....
I'm using an Acer Travelmate 8006LMi[^] (2GHz Pentium M, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD) with WinXP SP2 for development, and I've found it to be perfectly suitable for most purposes. It is of course slower than a comparable desktop (I use an Athlon 2500+ with 1GB of RAM), but if you trade that off against portability and convenience the Centrino notebooks are hard to beat. :) Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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I'm using an Acer Travelmate 8006LMi[^] (2GHz Pentium M, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD) with WinXP SP2 for development, and I've found it to be perfectly suitable for most purposes. It is of course slower than a comparable desktop (I use an Athlon 2500+ with 1GB of RAM), but if you trade that off against portability and convenience the Centrino notebooks are hard to beat. :) Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
A question about VS studio - I have 512MB in my main PC,would 1GB help reduce disk thrashing or is it just a side effect of XP 'doing things'? Elaine (impatient fluffy tigress) The tigress is here :-D
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A question about VS studio - I have 512MB in my main PC,would 1GB help reduce disk thrashing or is it just a side effect of XP 'doing things'? Elaine (impatient fluffy tigress) The tigress is here :-D
Based on what we've seen, I'd strongly recommend upgrading...particularly if you use Virtual PC. After all...2GB would be a reasonable memory size to go for a new machine, so 1GB on an existing dev box is just sensible. ;) Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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Hi gang, I'm replacing my company owned machine with a personal machine. That means a pocketbook hit... I've been looking at several options.. What do you all think of a Centrio machine for development? So I be looking at the HT Pentium machines instead? What about the AMD 64 systems? Does Multi Media Edition satisfy the requirements for Studio installations (Including 2005?) Thanks for any advice. Nick This are my own opinions. You know the rest.....
I'm using a 1.6MHz centrino with 3/4 Gig of RAM and have SQL 2000 and VS 2005 installed and it works like a treat. cheers, Chris Maunder
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Hi gang, I'm replacing my company owned machine with a personal machine. That means a pocketbook hit... I've been looking at several options.. What do you all think of a Centrio machine for development? So I be looking at the HT Pentium machines instead? What about the AMD 64 systems? Does Multi Media Edition satisfy the requirements for Studio installations (Including 2005?) Thanks for any advice. Nick This are my own opinions. You know the rest.....
Nick Jacobs wrote: Does Multi Media Edition satisfy the requirements for Studio installations (Including 2005?) Windows Media Center Edition 2005 is based on XP Pro SP2. As for processor its really up to you, if you are doing development you would probably benefit from dual-core or HyperThreading. Centrinos are however very very effecient. Matt Newman
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