Hi! I use an HP laptop with a 17" widescreen which is sufficient for developing in Netbeans IDE as well as Eclipse. I'm using an Intel Centrino Duo 1.8Ghz with 2 gig of RAM. I also use the Video out option so that I can attach an LCD as an additional monitor which REALLY helps!
The biggest bottleneck has been the harddrive speed. Upon monitoring the system it seems to be the cause of any speed issues that I've found when compiling or starting up servers. Hope that helps! Regards, Antoine -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Bruce S. Sent: Mon 1/7/2008 8:44 AM To: CTJUG Forum Subject: [CTJUG Forum] Notebook advice Hi, I'm considering buying a notebook. Never having owned or developed on a notebook before, I'm not sure what annoyances I'm going to experience when I start using my first. I am wondering what screen size/resolution to go for (I generally use eclipse as an IDE on a 19" CRT monitor with resolution set at 1280 X 1024 or a 17" CRT monitor with resolution set as high as I can manage...not sure what it's set to). I realise I won't be able to do that on a notebook. I know there are loads of you out there working on all shapes and sizes. What do you all consider a minimum screen size/resolution for working with your IDE on your notebook? As an aside (coming from someone who hasn't used a notebook before, and considering that as developers we may tend to have specific requirements for our machines), anyone got any cautionary advice, "must have" advice or other? Cheers and many thanks, Bruce. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Forum For the ctjug home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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