Cheers Dave, i guess i'm ok with just 4gb
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From: Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com
Sent: 04 August 2010 15:46
To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com
Subject: Re: SOT: Best CF development laptop
And don't settle for less than 8gbs of RAM. 64 bit
I've been very satisfied with this laptop. Its a pretty sweet machine for
development:
http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Battalion_101_CZ-11_Ultra_2_Gaming_Laptop
Processor
Intel® Core⢠i7-740QM Mobile Processor (4x 1.73GHz/6MB L3 Cache)
Memory
4GB [2GB x 2] 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM [Laptop Memory] -
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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
? i'm about to buy a new laptop and
would appreciate some advice
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From: Alan Rother alan.rot...@gmail.com
Sent: 03 August 2010 22:05
To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com
Subject: Re: SOT: Best CF development laptop
I'd lean towards the Sony
I bought a high-end Vaio once. Within two years it was literally falling
apart. Keys missing, screen shorting out, etc. The Apple Powerbook I bought
to replace it still looks like new almost seven years later. IMHO nobody makes
a better laptop than Apple, even if you just put Windows on
This is the opposite of my experience. A VM running on the 7200 rpm drive in
my almost 3 year old Macbook Pro is faster than one running on a FW800 Drobo
off my Mac Pro.
At least that's how it feels. Maybe I just expect less from my laptop!
Andrew.
On 2010-08-04, at 2:17, Mark Mandel
I will take this as a segway to mention my favorite digital crack house:
cedarpc.com
http://www.cedarpc.com/index.php?open=onlinestore
If you like a bargain and don't mind doing a little leg work you can find
new and used machines here at a deep discount. They usually have some new
sealed box
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.
Yikes! I'm sorry, but this is overall terrible advice unless you
happen to have external eSATA or something along those lines. Most
And don't settle for less than 8gbs of RAM. 64 bit software has
a tendency to eat up RAM
news to me :0) is it not that just that 64bit tech has the ability to fully
access 4gb of ram at the one time (If the os needs access to it) rather than
eats it up.
Anyone care to explain this one to
Maybe I am off base with this one, but the research I did a while back
stated that the biggest bottleneck to vm performance was disk io conflicts.
I.e. if your vm lives on the same hd as your os and your programs they are
all competing to read and write at the same time.
Having a separate hd,
Maybe I am off base with this one, but the research I did a while back
stated that the biggest bottleneck to vm performance was disk io conflicts.
That is definitely a big issue in a production environment, where
you're more likely to be running multiple VMs. But in a developer's
typical
Sorry for the OT,
I'm looking to buy a new laptop mostly CF 9 development with CF
builder and Flash builder,
MS-SQL, Oracle a few local web sites, SVN .I guess just the usual
development stuff.
I kind of narrowed my search to Sony Vaio F1290:
* Intel® Core Quad i7-840QM processor (1.86GHz)
I'm looking to buy a new laptop mostly CF 9 development with CF
builder and Flash builder,
MS-SQL, Oracle a few local web sites, SVN .I guess just the usual
development stuff.
I kind of narrowed my search to Sony Vaio F1290:
* Intel® Core Quad i7-840QM processor (1.86GHz)
*
I'd lean towards the Sony if the price is comparable... but I would wipe the
hard drive and re-install Windows7 clean from an original media disk, not
from the Sony disks... Too much bloat ware.
As a 3rd alternate I'd look at Lenovo (Formally IBM) I've been really happy
with my ThinkPad, but it
Personally I would go with the ASUS Lappy if anything for the Blu-Ray drive
and the HDMI out. I am a big fan of ASUS motherboards and if their Laptops
are anything like their MB's then it will kick arse and take names. THe only
thing I don't like about the ASUS is the weight and the size. 8lbs is
Thank you guys. Informative as usual.
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.
In the end I want one that's
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 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
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Subject: Re: SOT: Best CF development laptop
Yes, it's a replacement for a desktop but will see some travel too.
I will have a couple of VM' too and that's the reason I went with 8gb.
and it' Asus not Acer :)
@Alan I had before a ThinkPad and they are very reliable. Expensive,
kind of spartan looking but they never die.
Probably I will
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.
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From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 11:10 PM
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Subject: Re: SOT: Best CF development laptop
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