Re: Ultimate Dev Machine for Visual Studio 2005 SP1/ Orcas

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They do have 7200 rpm drives for the laptops, but they are smaller capacity
than the slower ones. The bigger drives available are 5400rpm. I use a Dell
Latitude that's about 2 years old with 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive.
It still runs okay, but I'm sure the graphics card does not support Vista.
So I have been considering buying an Inspiron E1505 (because the Latitudes
are not Vista-capable yet), fully packed to the gills. I'd buy the fastest
one possible with as much memory as possible.

I don't have room for a desktop, and I like to be able to take my laptop
with me to show my work or if I am collaborating with someone else. In the
last place I worked, people took their laptops home so they could
telecommute, or log in to work if there was a problem. Desktops are easier
to upgrade, and have more disk space capability w/o using an external hard
drive. It just depends on what you want.

My laptop also supports dual monitors, so when I'm at home, I have a 20.1"
monitor that I connect to it and use as a second monitor. I love that. You
can never have enough real estate.

That's my 2 cents' worth.

Robin S.
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"smilly" <smilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What about Workstations vs Laptops. More speed the better since Laptops
have
slow hard drives?

"Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )" wrote:

HI ,

"smilly" <smilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I need to plot out systems for some of our developers and I was
wondering
if
any one could give out system specs.

Whatever you get now it will be outdated at the end of the year. Well
maybe
not outdated but there will be something better for sure.

Currently in my office we are running on DELL Precision PWS670
workstation, Dual Xeon 2 GB RAM. These are been around for a year at
least
and they work fine with XP , VS 03/05 and SQL 2K5

My machine at home is using a C2D 6600 with 2 GB ram and it does run
great
too.

I'm not planning to upgrade to Vista anytime soon though.

So the botton line is buy the best you can and get at least 2 GB RAM !!!





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