On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Lou Syracuse <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I need a notebook with either Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate because those are > the versions that have IIS. > > Anybody been down this road? Any thoughts? Ideas? Complaints? >
I've been doing development on notebooks only since the nineties :) First: you want to buy a business-class machine, not a consumer machine. BC machines are made of better parts, are more reliable, usually have longer warranties, and will have interchangeable parts with other machines that have that model number. Consumer-class machines, on the other hand, are poorer quality, made of spot-market components that might only run the OS they ship with but no others, and should be considered disposable not repairable. Second: You don't have to pay retail price. I have bought ThinkPads from the Lenovo outlet site and get reconditioned/refurbished machines for years and years. Dell has a similarly successful outlet site. The warranty is more limited (typically, 90 days) but machines are usually dead fast or not at all. And the price savings are spectacular, if you shop around a little. Bear in mind a BC machine will last 5 years and give more payback than a consumer class will over the 3 they last. They will often come with the OS installed. Alternatively, you can sign up for something like the MS Action Pack and get a development license to install the version(s) of OS you need. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
