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.
Don’t forget that your MSDN Premium subscription nets you a $100 credit per month on Azure. IIRC an A6 VM (4 x CPUs and 28GB of RAM – sufficient for an ‘all-up’ AD, SQL, SP, Visual Studio environment) will cost $0.82 per hour.
If you left that running 24/7 you’re looking at about $510 per month ($610 – $100 MSDN credit). Assuming you only run it for 10 hours per day, 5 days a week though, that goes down to something closer to $65 per month ($164 – $100 MSDN credit).
Clearly there are considerations other than cost:
- Integration with other systems
- Sensitivity of the code you’re developing – I’m still seeing customers who refuse to allow the code we’re developing for them ever end up on a public cloud based system
- The requirement that you need an internet connection to be able to work
It’s an interesting proposition I think, especially for teams which may shrink or grow often. The difference in the overhead of spinning up an extra dev VM on Azure vs. sourcing hardware capable of hosting a local dev environment is night and day.
Wow … what a lot of responses!