Andy, Could you expand on the small apps that you need? I am just curious as to what they are. I made the switch back in Feb and have found that 99% of my needs have been met... the 1% is for TortoiseSVN :-)
J.J. On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > @Jochem...unlikely that we'd have all 4 concurrent, but it's possible. > Probably not for long periods of time though. Mostly working from desks, but > I would be doing graphics work ala Photoshop and Flash, and screen real > estate is of crucial importance. I'd rather deal with the additional weight, > and size, of a 17" laptop than have to deal with a smaller screen. > > @Jim/JJ...we could ask for MBPs (whether we get them or not, I'm not sure). > I will say that I'm considering it, but will likely stick with a PC because > of several small, but crucial, features that a PC has which OSX does not. > > We'll proably be going with high end Dell XPS or Alienware machines. We'll > see though. > > Thanks to everyone for their input. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 3:51 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: (ot) Best development laptop > > Andy Matthews 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. > > How mobile is your team? Will they actually take their laptops somewhere or > will they just remain on a desk? If they are meant to be portable, don't go > beyond a 15.4" screen (and that is bad enough already). > > >> 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. > > 4 concurrent instances is a lot. I may have 12 JRun and 2 JBoss instances on > my laptop, but I never run more then 2 at the same time. > > >> Can any of you recommend high quality laptops that meet these criteria? > > If you want quality nothing beats a Lenovo Thinkpad. They have plenty of > models that meet your performance requirements. > > Jochem > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:313165 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
