Laptop Recommendations
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I know this gets asked a lot but... I'm looking to buy a new laptop but it's a couple of years since I've had to buy any new hardware so I'm completely out of touch with processors etc. I'll be running the standard set of tools - VS2008/2010, SSMS etc. I'm considering keeping my desktop and setting it up as a server with SQL Server & Biztalk (and myabe VSTS) on it so I can take a burden off the laptop. When I'm working at home I'll probably use my old 20" LCD to set up a dual screen display as well though I guess I'll want a 17" display. I know a lot of people have had problems with Dell but I've always had decent experiences with them in the past so I'm not opposed to buying anything from them. I've also considered getting a mac book and running virtualisation on it - if anyone else is doing this I'd be interested to hear feedback. I'm fortunate enough to have a full MSDN Developer's License which covers most of my software needs. Budget is probably up to £1500 (~$2500) - if anyone has recommendations for specs and suppliers I'd appreciate it.
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I know this gets asked a lot but... I'm looking to buy a new laptop but it's a couple of years since I've had to buy any new hardware so I'm completely out of touch with processors etc. I'll be running the standard set of tools - VS2008/2010, SSMS etc. I'm considering keeping my desktop and setting it up as a server with SQL Server & Biztalk (and myabe VSTS) on it so I can take a burden off the laptop. When I'm working at home I'll probably use my old 20" LCD to set up a dual screen display as well though I guess I'll want a 17" display. I know a lot of people have had problems with Dell but I've always had decent experiences with them in the past so I'm not opposed to buying anything from them. I've also considered getting a mac book and running virtualisation on it - if anyone else is doing this I'd be interested to hear feedback. I'm fortunate enough to have a full MSDN Developer's License which covers most of my software needs. Budget is probably up to £1500 (~$2500) - if anyone has recommendations for specs and suppliers I'd appreciate it.
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moon_stick wrote:
£1500 (~$2500)
That should read £1500 (~$1500) tech gear works at a different exchange rate!
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I know this gets asked a lot but... I'm looking to buy a new laptop but it's a couple of years since I've had to buy any new hardware so I'm completely out of touch with processors etc. I'll be running the standard set of tools - VS2008/2010, SSMS etc. I'm considering keeping my desktop and setting it up as a server with SQL Server & Biztalk (and myabe VSTS) on it so I can take a burden off the laptop. When I'm working at home I'll probably use my old 20" LCD to set up a dual screen display as well though I guess I'll want a 17" display. I know a lot of people have had problems with Dell but I've always had decent experiences with them in the past so I'm not opposed to buying anything from them. I've also considered getting a mac book and running virtualisation on it - if anyone else is doing this I'd be interested to hear feedback. I'm fortunate enough to have a full MSDN Developer's License which covers most of my software needs. Budget is probably up to £1500 (~$2500) - if anyone has recommendations for specs and suppliers I'd appreciate it.
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Get a cheap one. It will be obsolete a week after you buy it (if it isn't already obsolete). They're throw-away items, so there's no point in spending tons of cash on 'em.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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I know this gets asked a lot but... I'm looking to buy a new laptop but it's a couple of years since I've had to buy any new hardware so I'm completely out of touch with processors etc. I'll be running the standard set of tools - VS2008/2010, SSMS etc. I'm considering keeping my desktop and setting it up as a server with SQL Server & Biztalk (and myabe VSTS) on it so I can take a burden off the laptop. When I'm working at home I'll probably use my old 20" LCD to set up a dual screen display as well though I guess I'll want a 17" display. I know a lot of people have had problems with Dell but I've always had decent experiences with them in the past so I'm not opposed to buying anything from them. I've also considered getting a mac book and running virtualisation on it - if anyone else is doing this I'd be interested to hear feedback. I'm fortunate enough to have a full MSDN Developer's License which covers most of my software needs. Budget is probably up to £1500 (~$2500) - if anyone has recommendations for specs and suppliers I'd appreciate it.
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moon_stick wrote:
I've also considered getting a mac book and running virtualisation on it - if anyone else is doing this I'd be interested to hear feedback.
Works great for me (though you'll want to Bootcamp rather than just run VMWare/Parallels for full speed.) But I think Chris Maunder had a poor experience with a MacBook and he would be a more serious developer than I. I have got 4gb RAM in this MacBook though which helps a lot.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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I know this gets asked a lot but... I'm looking to buy a new laptop but it's a couple of years since I've had to buy any new hardware so I'm completely out of touch with processors etc. I'll be running the standard set of tools - VS2008/2010, SSMS etc. I'm considering keeping my desktop and setting it up as a server with SQL Server & Biztalk (and myabe VSTS) on it so I can take a burden off the laptop. When I'm working at home I'll probably use my old 20" LCD to set up a dual screen display as well though I guess I'll want a 17" display. I know a lot of people have had problems with Dell but I've always had decent experiences with them in the past so I'm not opposed to buying anything from them. I've also considered getting a mac book and running virtualisation on it - if anyone else is doing this I'd be interested to hear feedback. I'm fortunate enough to have a full MSDN Developer's License which covers most of my software needs. Budget is probably up to £1500 (~$2500) - if anyone has recommendations for specs and suppliers I'd appreciate it.
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moon_stick wrote:
I've also considered getting a mac book and running virtualisation on it - if anyone else is doing this I'd be interested to hear feedback
I use VMWare Fusion 3 to run Windows 7 + VS on my MacBook Pro (15"). The only issue I have is switching between OS X and Windows can feel a little sticky, because of RAM utilisation (even though I have 4GB). I haven't fully scoped it out (wonder if using 32 rather than 64 bit Windows might help). I use OS X more than Windows, to be fair - but if you're using Windows more exclusively, you might want to consider BootCamp. One other thing I definitely want to look at is using an Expresscard SSD like this one[^] to store the VM - should cut out the other source of slowdown, which is OS X and Windows fighting over the disk.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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I know this gets asked a lot but... I'm looking to buy a new laptop but it's a couple of years since I've had to buy any new hardware so I'm completely out of touch with processors etc. I'll be running the standard set of tools - VS2008/2010, SSMS etc. I'm considering keeping my desktop and setting it up as a server with SQL Server & Biztalk (and myabe VSTS) on it so I can take a burden off the laptop. When I'm working at home I'll probably use my old 20" LCD to set up a dual screen display as well though I guess I'll want a 17" display. I know a lot of people have had problems with Dell but I've always had decent experiences with them in the past so I'm not opposed to buying anything from them. I've also considered getting a mac book and running virtualisation on it - if anyone else is doing this I'd be interested to hear feedback. I'm fortunate enough to have a full MSDN Developer's License which covers most of my software needs. Budget is probably up to £1500 (~$2500) - if anyone has recommendations for specs and suppliers I'd appreciate it.
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I would buy one of these: Mobile Core i7[^] You can personalize it so it's even more powerful.
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I would buy one of these: Mobile Core i7[^] You can personalize it so it's even more powerful.
Giorgi Dalakishvili #region signature My Articles Asynchronous Registry Notification Using Strongly-typed WMI Classes in .NET [^] My blog #endregion
Somewhat annoyingly, they don't appear to do that model in the UK... :doh:
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I know this gets asked a lot but... I'm looking to buy a new laptop but it's a couple of years since I've had to buy any new hardware so I'm completely out of touch with processors etc. I'll be running the standard set of tools - VS2008/2010, SSMS etc. I'm considering keeping my desktop and setting it up as a server with SQL Server & Biztalk (and myabe VSTS) on it so I can take a burden off the laptop. When I'm working at home I'll probably use my old 20" LCD to set up a dual screen display as well though I guess I'll want a 17" display. I know a lot of people have had problems with Dell but I've always had decent experiences with them in the past so I'm not opposed to buying anything from them. I've also considered getting a mac book and running virtualisation on it - if anyone else is doing this I'd be interested to hear feedback. I'm fortunate enough to have a full MSDN Developer's License which covers most of my software needs. Budget is probably up to £1500 (~$2500) - if anyone has recommendations for specs and suppliers I'd appreciate it.
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I recieved my new Dell Latitude E6400 yesterday, the same day as the motherboard on my old one broke! I only have some hours of experience yet, but if you can afford it, get a solid state drive. The performance gain when reading a large number of files at the same time is ridiculous!
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I recieved my new Dell Latitude E6400 yesterday, the same day as the motherboard on my old one broke! I only have some hours of experience yet, but if you can afford it, get a solid state drive. The performance gain when reading a large number of files at the same time is ridiculous!
Jörgen Andersson wrote:
if you can afford it, get a solid state drive.
...from an online store and install it yourself. OEMs are all using samsung controllers that are barely faster than a hard drive in random IO. The Intel and Indilinx based controllers are and over an order of magnitude better. While each is better in different types of IO both are roughly priced by capacity now and for general purpose use you should buy based on needed capacity/available budget.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
