Some thoughts to add to the mix. I consistently buy Dell laptops, for a variety of reasons, but primarily for their 3 year, on site support. As a contractor, even a single day downtime is no good.
No idea which part of the world you are in, but here in australia, I've called tech support at 3pm and had a tech at my house 9am the next morning to fix my computer. If you can find a brand of laptops that provide multi-year on site support, it's invaluable. On another note - if you want the best performance out of your vms, put them on an external hd, the faster the better, with the fastest connection as well. Anyway, just my experience, thought I would share. Sent from my mobile device On 3 Aug 2010 17:39, "Victor Moore" <victor.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I did look around and some time you can get 100 off. > > The advantage at the sony store is that it can be somewhat customized > (including engraving) and the previous model F11 has a 200$ discount > > Thanks > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Eric Roberts > <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: >> >> You might want to check out some of the deals they have at Tiger Direct and >> New Egg...you can save a lot of money that way. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 11:10 PM >> To: cf-talk >> Subject: Re: SOT: Best CF development laptop >> >> >>> Price wise they are very similar. Asus has Blu-Ray, bigger screen and >>> hard drive but battery life sucks. >>> Sony smaller screen and hard and no Blu-Ray drive (I can add one for >>> 100 I think) but better CPU and much better battery. >> >> A lot of these things really depend on how you plan to use it. If >> you're getting a desktop replacement, you probably don't care about >> battery life. If you're not going to watch movies, you don't care >> about Blu-Ray, etc, etc. >> >> When I got my laptop (Dell Studio XPS 13) I had a very specific set of >> requirements, and that's what guided my purchase. I wanted something >> no larger than 13" (I have to schlep it around a lot), with at least 8 >> GB RAM, a SSD drive (fast, doesn't run as hot or use as much battery), >> and a webcam. There were only about 3 laptops around at the time that >> met those requirements, and this was the cheapest. >> >>> In the end I want one that's good quality and doesn't die after one year. >> >> Overall I've been very happy with Sony hardware, but their quality all >> seems to be on the high end - if you buy a really expensive Sony, >> it'll generally have a noticeably better build quality than their >> lower-end stuff. >> >> That said, I have some Sonys that have been all around the world, had >> the crap kicked out of them, and still work just fine. >> >> I don't really have any experience with Acer hardware. >> >>> @Dave u know the saying u can't be too slim or have too much memory :) >> >> Well, sure, if you're going to run a 64-bit OS. Otherwise, there's no >> need for more than 4GB. >> >> When I bought my laptop, about 18 months ago I guess, I specifically >> wanted one with 8GB RAM, and they were fairly rare at the time. But I >> wanted that primarily for running multiple VMs. I didn't really need >> that for CF development alone, where you might run CF, a database >> instance, an IDE and a browser. >> >> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software >> http://www.figleaf.com/ >> http://training.figleaf.com/ >> >> Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on >> GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized >> instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. >> >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:335964 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
