So what is your current machine, Ted? I like the 17" Dell Vostro line, they dont have any of those in the Outlet store though which is something I was looking into. I only took a quick look as I'm still at work and I'm too new to be caught surfing on the clock just yet. I will check it out further after I get home tonight, along with Lenovo and HP.
BTW, anyone else who has "Charter communications" as their cable provider has my condolences. I've been trying for over two weeks to get them to run a coax line a whopping 4 feet between their junction box (located on my property) and the side of my house so they can do the install. They've been out five times, and still can't figure it out if they can do it. It is the same issue I had 6 years ago when I bought the house. I gave up on them again and ordered Verizon from my notebook while at a Starbucks; I have a DSL line 30 hours later. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] - Buying a Developers notebook 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 [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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/013301cb239d$04da63d0$0e8f2b...@com ** 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.
