Best development laptop? Huh... that's not a loaded question? The two factors (other than price) that drove my decision was RAM and screen real estate. RAM is obvious, especially if Vista and Java come into play. Java reminds me of the scene from Austin Powers where Fat Bastard was eating in bed. Both are gluttons. If you are going to run a full on dev environment with Photoshop, DW, and load up Eclipse with Plugins and run multiple instances of CF 8, Database server(s), etc. I would say get as much RAM as you can afford. 4-6 gigs will give you room to grow and 3 gig would be a bare minimum. Whe I bough a gig chop for my old laptop back in 2005 I had to rationalize it. I thought to myself "there is no WAY I will ever use all 1.28 gigs"".
I would highly recommend getting a model with wide screen. Preferably 17 in. You will thank yourself. I wouldnt call it a High quality but the one I ended up getting (@ sams club for $700) was a model close to this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834147746 It is an entertainment model really. It was a little slow in the processor bench marks but for the money I am very happy with it. With Vista, CF 8, Apache, Eclipse (loaded with plugins), MSSQL, MySQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, Toad for MySQL, AV, anti-spywear/Virus, Firewall etc. etc I hover at about ~2 - 2.3 gigs. The video card is suprisingly good. Even with shared video memory I am able to play older games like Half Life with a decent frame rate. G On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > It's been suggested that the dev dept at our company (of which I am a part) > get rid of our desktop machines and replace them with laptops. I'd like to > run it past you guys and see what you thought about good, beefy development > machines. Here's a partial list of the things that would need to run on each > machine: > > * 2-4 concurrent instances of JVM (and ColdFusion) - a "sites" instance, a > "control panel" instance for our current code, and a sites, and control > instance for a new set of code we're developing. > * Eclipse with mutliple projects, each containing potentially thousands of > files > * Flex > * In at least my case, Photoshop and Flash CS3. > * Any number of business style apps (outlook, browsers, office apps, etc.) > > Can any of you recommend high quality laptops that meet these criteria? > We'd probably also be getting external monitors as well, but that's a little > easier to define. I'd just like input from you guys as I'm sure that SOME of > you are using laptops as your primary machines. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:313150 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
