visual studio laptop?

[Erik Frey]

Hi,

If there's a better ng to ask this question, feel free to tell me!

I'm trying to find a very portable laptop that's powerful enough to let
me run visual studio on medium to large (tens of thousands of lines of code)
winforms projects. I could not think of a better place where people might
have some experience with this!

I've been looking at ultraportables but they all seem a little
underpowered.

Any recommendations?

Erik

 

[mike]

I purchased the IBM T40p with Centrino chip. It has worked well for me and
it is less than 5 lbs.

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

If there's a better ng to ask this question, feel free to tell me!

I'm trying to find a very portable laptop that's powerful enough to let
me run visual studio on medium to large (tens of thousands of lines of code)
winforms projects. I could not think of a better place where people might
have some experience with this!

I've been looking at ultraportables but they all seem a little
underpowered.

I've got a Dell Inspiron 5150, currently with 512Mb of memory. It's got
a *gorgeous* 1600x1200 screen (which I always think is important for
development), a 3.06GHz P4, a decent battery (lasts 4 hours when I'm
not playing games), a DVD+RW drive, 60Gb disk, a decent graphics card,
built-in wireless etc - and wasn't too pricy. I'd thoroughly recommend
it - but it's cheaper to buy it without much memory and then upgrade it
with RAM from somewhere like Crucial.

 

[Erik Frey]

For the price those are some impressive stats. Thanks for the pointer.

 

[Erik Frey]

Thanks, I'll check this out!

I purchased the IBM T40p with Centrino chip. It has worked well for me and
it is less than 5 lbs.

 

[vilius lukosius]

Hi,

I would higly suggest intel centrino laptop, or maybe wait a little
until intel will release 2mb cache processors of about 1.8GHz speed.
I personally work on intel centrino laptop with visual studio, sql db on
it vss and much more, single files arenot to big(i mean .cs), but whole
sotulion has more tahn 100 projects and my cpu is 1.3Ghz, but i keep it
at 600Mhz anyways because it's more than enough for me.

if you consider laptop just choose at least 5400Rpm hdd and min 512 Ram.
hdd imho is the weakest point in laptops. and btw mine is about 2.5kg, i
would like it easier but it's just great. and 1.3cpu just flies, i
wonder houw 1.6 would feel. and yeah they are cool(i mean temperature).

P.S. i like AMD, but the truth is that centrino is really nice piece of
work.

ok good luck with choosing.

 

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

Sure, HDD perf. is dissapointing in laptops, therefore I added a 80GB
Firewire/USB2 7200RPM drive to my 1.8 Ghz/512MB centrino, I can assure the
overall performance increase is quite impressive.

Willy.

 

[Mickey Williams]

I've got an HP/Compaq with P4 2.6 GHz w /1G RAM that I picked up at Costco
a few months ago for about $1500 US. I run a variety of virtual PCs,
depending on what I'm working/teaching/writing about. But what I really want
is here:
http://www.go-l.com/laptops/hollywood/features/index.htm

 

[Erik Frey]

Excellent pointers, thanks.

Hi,

I would higly suggest intel centrino laptop, or maybe wait a little
until intel will release 2mb cache processors of about 1.8GHz speed.
I personally work on intel centrino laptop with visual studio, sql db on
it vss and much more, single files arenot to big(i mean .cs), but whole
sotulion has more tahn 100 projects and my cpu is 1.3Ghz, but i keep it
at 600Mhz anyways because it's more than enough for me.

if you consider laptop just choose at least 5400Rpm hdd and min 512 Ram.
hdd imho is the weakest point in laptops. and btw mine is about 2.5kg, i
would like it easier but it's just great. and 1.3cpu just flies, i
wonder houw 1.6 would feel. and yeah they are cool(i mean temperature).

P.S. i like AMD, but the truth is that centrino is really nice piece of
work.

ok good luck with choosing.

 

[Daniel Billingsley]

1.5" thick and it even has a subwoofer! ROFL!