Go on let’s have em, what laptops are you all running and do you recommend for SP 2013 development ? The MBP a contender (surely not)!… Is anyone surviving on 16gb ?
UPDATE! Can you also add your laptop and configuration to this list : (User “Add to List”). http://list.ly/list/73V-sharepoint-2013-laptops. If someone has the same one, just vote it up.
It really depends on a number of factors, for example is it a single VM per developer or a series of them per customer/project etc.
As a rough guide I’d say between $80 and $250 per server per month. Remember that most of these services are compute on demand, so you would only really be paying while the machine is running. So it could be less.
Other benefits like cloning a base VM with your preferred set-up for a new project, or taking snapshots at specific stages or even creating a dev, QA and prod environment in minutes obviously also apply.Â
Wow … what a lot of responses!