Bear Bibeault wrote:Best? In my opinion, a MacBook Pro -- you can run all of the 3 important platforms: OS X, Windows and Linux.
Bear Bibeault wrote:Best? In my opinion, a MacBook Pro -- you can run all of the 3 important platforms: OS X, Windows and Linux.
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padraig dillane wrote:Would 4gb ram/2 duo processor/2.2ghz do the job?
Pat Farrell wrote:A minimal laptop for me has a quad processor and 8GB of ram. ... Frankly, its not fast enough all the time.
Akhilesh Trivedi wrote:and I thought if only thing that run on Apple machine is from Apple.
Jesper de Jong wrote:
And you could ofcourse also install Windows and Linux in a virtual machine (using for example Parallels, VMWare or VirtualBox virtualization software - you'll need enough memory to be able to do this though).
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Jesper de Jong wrote:Really? What is the bottleneck? I can't imagine that a quad-core processor and 8 GB RAM are not enough. If it's disk I/O, try installing an SSD, it is much faster than a harddisk and it will make your computer feel much faster overall.
Pat Farrell wrote:@Bear probably writes fewer bugs that I do.
Jayesh A Lalwani wrote:Actually, I am moving away from using my laptop for development and moving towards using company hosted VMs. My company has a huge VM farm. I have an image with eclipse, maven, jboss, blah blah installed. I start a VM using my image and VNC into the machine from my laptop.
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Bert Bates wrote:the laptop's speed is of course very important, but getting as many pixels as possible is, arguably, equally or more important.
Pat Farrell wrote:But when I write bugs, eat up all the memory with Java, then everything slows to a crawl, including non-Java things. I don't know if this box will go above 8GB. When I have SQL bugs and Java bugs, memory goes away fast.
Akhilesh Trivedi wrote:Except for VitualBox, others seems to be 'paid ones'. And do they bundle Windows or any OS with virtualization software? Else for virtualization on personal computer, its not only extra memory but also extra money.
Jayesh A Lalwani wrote:Actually, I am moving away from using my laptop for development and moving towards using company hosted VMs. My company has a huge VM farm. I have an image with eclipse, maven, jboss, blah blah installed. I start a VM using my image and VNC into the machine from my laptop.
Start working on a new branch? Start a new machine! :lol: Don't know what the eff is this machine doing? Start a new machine! I need to test a process that runs on 4 machines? Start 4 machines! Oops my windows laptop gave a BSOD? Doesn't matter because my VM is still up. No data lost. Need to run a long running process? Start the process on my VM, shut down my laptop and go home and it will keep working on the VM. Working from home? Absolutely no connectivity issues since my "work" machine is right inside the local network.
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Joe Harry wrote:I have the following installed on my Lenovo Thinpad machine which has a 2 GB RAM and runs Ubuntu 10.04
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