[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

[Toby Tremayne]

I use a 17 inch macbook pro, and I absolutely love it.  It has the power of unix if you need it, it has the ease of use of mac software and hardware and with parallels I can comfortably run windows and windows apps at full speed.  Under parallels win2k and winxp run faster than they did on the desktop I just upgraded from. I currently have parallels virtual machines for every client environment I work on, and it makes my life soooo much easier.  There's nothing I need to run that I can't run on this machine, including visual db design apps under windows etc. Toby On 08/09/2006, at 11:10 AM, Haikal Saadh wrote: Shame that it has to be a PC... a 17" Powerbook/MBP  would fit the bill  nicely. It might be worthwhile seeing of there are Mac alternatives to the  software you usei I don't know how much of enterprise manager's feature set you need, but  there are heaps of tools that do what query analyser does. Don't know about access and goldmine... but for what it's worth, I use  my powerbook for 99.99% of the work I need to do (CF, java and flash  development), and for the few odd times I need to use a windows app,  there's a headless box under my desk that I can remote desktop into. Ryan Sabir wrote: Hey all, Which laptop is the discerning web developers laptop of choice these days? I'm looking to make myself more mobile and am wondering which road to  head down. My requirements in order of importance are:     Large Screen     Battery life     Performance     Lightweight What are you guys using? And sorry, but it needs to be a PC.. our work  environment is very PC oriented in terms of software we own and use  regularly (Enterprise Mgr, Access, Goldmine) bye! Ryan Sabir Technical Director *p:* (02) 9274 8030 *f:* (02) 9274 8099 *m:* 0411 512 454 *w:* www.newgency.com <http://www.newgency.com/> *Newgency Pty Ltd* Web | Multimedia | eMarketing 224 Riley St Surry Hills NSW 2010 Sydney, Australia --  Haikal Saadh Applications Programmer ICT Resources, TALSS QUT Kelvin Grove --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---