I second the choice to gets something with a 17" screen. I've been running a Dell XPS M1710 (they have since updated) as my laptop, and it is a beefy machine, and its been really nice!
When I was looking around, the beefiest machine, with the highest screen resolution was the Dell XPS, and it was the cheapest too. I actually run Ubuntu on it, but I don't do much Photoshop stuff (tho I do run it in a VM sometimes), and have a dual boot to XP. The only issue I have had with it, is after a year the nVidia card overheated, but that seems to be more a fault with nVidia. That being said, Dell was out next day, and had it replaced. I would recommend getting Complete Cover for your Dell machines. I have found Dell support to be really, really good (at least in AU). I've called them at 3pm one day, had a phone call back from a tech that night, and had him out at 9am the next morning. Well worth the extra few hundred. Mark On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > @Jochem...unlikely that we'd have all 4 concurrent, but it's possible. > Probably not for long periods of time though. Mostly working from desks, but > I would be doing graphics work ala Photoshop and Flash, and screen real > estate is of crucial importance. I'd rather deal with the additional weight, > and size, of a 17" laptop than have to deal with a smaller screen. > > @Jim/JJ...we could ask for MBPs (whether we get them or not, I'm not sure). > I will say that I'm considering it, but will likely stick with a PC because > of several 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 3:51 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: (ot) Best development laptop > > 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:313164 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
