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:313158 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
