On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:45 PM, David Skinner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm looking for a laptop that has descent battery life (> 8 hours) and > enough resources to run 1 - 3 light VM's at a time (Virtualbox/Vagrant 128 > - 256 MB machines). > > What are you all using and what do you like/not like about your laptop? > I run a MBP15. I use VirtualBox and Parallels and have not problem with 3+ vagrants running at a time. What do I like about it? It is pretty. The OS is married to the hardware. Never need to worry about hardware drivers. No extra processes lost to AV software. A unix command line comes standard. I've used macs in the past, but never owned my own laptop. If I got a > macbook, what should I look for? If I go windows-based, does anyone have > any good recommendations for a brand? > With a MBP your options are screen size, amount of RAM, and disk space. Look for what you need. :) If money is not an object, get a Mac. If you do not go with a Mac, do you really need Windows? If not, just get a Linux laptop. Google showed me this HackerNews thread on Linux laptops. Might be worth a read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8673709 Cheers, Jonathan _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
