About 2 years ago I opted to purchase a laptop that was the fastest I could afford but not paying stupid money.
My work these days is mostly heavy database work so every gram of performance helps. It has a Sandybridge I7 and 16G of Ram. The key thing that sold me this laptop was that it supports 2 x sata III hard drives.These I replaced with a RAID-0 pair of fast SSDs. Anyway the point of this email is not that I'm boasting but that I cannot ever imagine going back to working on slower hardware ever again. The experience of not waiting to rebooting the machine, opening apps like visual studio or rebooting virtual machines in mere seconds (in fact I built a new Windows7 VM in about 6 minutes from scratch) . If I can recommend anything to fellow dev,s especially those that do the paid time consultancy, is that please don't cripple yourself with bad tools. -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland
