Buy a MacBook/MacBook Pro You will love it. I finally switched after keeping an eye on them for many yrs. Should've switched sooner! You get the best of both geek and user-friendly app worlds. I use Microsoft Office for office tasks, and terminal shell to login to remote servers or load up git source trees locally.
PJ On 10/19/09, Ajai Khattri <a...@bitblit.net> wrote: > > Ive been very happy with a dual-core box I built based on a Shuttle > barebones kit (shuttle.com). They are very compact but capable machines. > > I think being able to run virtual machines is important for web developers > so you'll want a box with a decent amount of RAM, maybe 4Gb. Also, two > monitors is very useful, so maybe look at cards with dual-outputs. > > Remember disk is cheap. Memory is cheap. So if you're buying a prebuilt > box, make sure the diak and memory upgrades aren't a tota' rip. (If they > are and you still wanna buy, then buy a minimal spec and upgrade > yourself). > > > -- > Aj. > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation > -- Patricia Ju p...@pobox.com +1-646-717-3871 success = fn(perseverance) _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
