RE: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-29 Thread Eric Roberts
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Re: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-29 Thread Greg Luce
I just got a bag with wheels! Problem solved. I brought it with me to Europe twice and worked from there a couple of weeks making connections in London and Warsaw. Not a problem with a wheelie bag. Greg On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Aaron Rouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Believe it or not,

Re: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-29 Thread Aaron Rouse
Believe it or not, I do not work at Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory so this is not the land of midgets over here. But if you are used to a heavy machine that is a whole other factor. Mine did not bug me until I had to fly to South America and spent a day jumping from flight to flight and walking

Re: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-29 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 26 Sep 2008, 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 I got a generic Dell Inspiron and turned the RAM and CPU options all the way up, and it's fine. -

RE: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-28 Thread Andy Matthews
;re hugely impactful to my workflow. andy -Original Message- From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 11:28 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: (ot) Best development laptop I used to say this all the time until I got a Dell M90 a little over a year ago

Re: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-27 Thread Aaron Rouse
I used to say this all the time until I got a Dell M90 a little over a year ago. Most people at work that have them nickname them the back breakers. The weight of it along with its power adapter and any other misc. stuff one would carry does not seem too bad at first but if you end up having to t

Re: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread Charlie Griefer
ucial, 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

Re: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread J.J. Merrick
l 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:[E

Re: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread Mark Mandel
#x27;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: &g

RE: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread Andy Matthews
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

2008-09-26 Thread Jochem van Dieten
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

Re: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread J.J. Merrick
> expense of a full MBP, plus we only use SQL Server and there's no tools for > the Mac, for MSSQL are there? > > > andy > > -Original Message- > From: Wil Genovese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 12:09 PM > To: cf-talk &g

Re: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread J.J. Merrick
If you can then obviously I am going to say that the MBP are the way to go. if you HAVE to have PC then I second the Dell D series. I just moved from a 4 year old D400 with 2 gigs of ram and I loved all the peripherals you could get. Having a docking station was awesome and they are just good soli

Re: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread Jim Rising
ly use SQL Server and there's no tools for > the Mac, for MSSQL are there? > > > andy > > -Original Message- > From: Wil Genovese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 12:09 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: (ot) Best development lapto

Re: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread Gerald Guido
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.

RE: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread Dave Watts
> I wouldn't be adverse to this, but I think we probably want > to avoid the expense of a full MBP, plus we only use SQL > Server and there's no tools for the Mac, for MSSQL are there? There are no native tools (obviously), but there are third-party tools that are sufficient for building queries

RE: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread Eric Roberts
BTW...it's a 2.33gig Centrino Duo, 3 gig of ram and an ATI Radeon FireGL card. It also has an 80gig drive on board. At work I hook it up to a 17" widescreen lcd. I have also hooked it up at home to my 37" widescreen LCD TV (it has a vga hookup on it) and played World of Warcraft and it looks awe

RE: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread Eric Roberts
I have a maxed out Lenovo T60p and kicks a**. Their newer model, T61p is even better. Eric /*-Original Message- /*From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /*Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 11:28 AM /*To: cf-talk /*Subject: (ot) Best development laptop /* /*It's been suggested that

RE: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread Andy Matthews
6, 2008 12:09 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: (ot) Best development laptop For myself I switched to a MacBook Pro back in February. It runs fast without crashing and can easily handle CF8 64bit Dev edition, PostgreSQL 8.xx DB server, CfEclipse, and all my other apps including iTunes playing music at the

RE: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread Dave Watts
> 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 n

Re: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread Dana Kowalski
For my personal laptop I use the 17in MBP and its incredible. I had some issues initially configuring CF 8 + Apache but once I overcame that hurdle it works great. I've never encountered a slowdown or any hangs. For work we stick with the Dell D series. If you put enough ram in, they've worked

RE: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread Dave Watts
> I would ONLY try this with XP though. I have since gone to > an HP Quad-core with 3G RAM running Vista and it's PAINFUL. > It's been a year and I'm close to having to reinstall with XP. Have you tried disabling Aero Glass? My Vista machines perform as well as they did with XP. Dave Watts, CTO

Re: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread Josh Nathanson
I've used my Toshiba Tecra A4 laptop for over three years now, toting it back and forth to the office every day, and I've had absolutely no problems with it. My particular machine isn't super beefy, but just as a brand, I'd highly recommend Toshiba products. If you got one of their higher end

Re: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread Wil Genovese
For myself I switched to a MacBook Pro back in February. It runs fast without crashing and can easily handle CF8 64bit Dev edition, PostgreSQL 8.xx DB server, CfEclipse, and all my other apps including iTunes playing music at the same time. All this on a 2.2Ghz Intel Duo CPU and 2Gb RAM.

Re: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread Greg Morphis
I use a Dell D630 2Ghz intel core 2 duo processor, 2 GB of RAM for work. It could use another gig of RAM to make it sweeter but it's not bad at all. I run multiple instances of Toad, IE, Firefox, Eclipse, CF (development), at times add Dreamweaver to that list.. all with no problems. At home I have

Re: (ot) Best development laptop

2008-09-26 Thread Greg Luce
I have used a HP ZD7000 for 4+ years. 3 years as a primary development machine. I would run it in the docking station with another 19" flat panel next to it with CF7-8/MSSQL2005/WAMP/CS3... This was a nice rig. It has a P4 3GHz CPU and 2G RAM. If you can find something modern like that with an upri