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.
I am not a fan of snapshotting either, can really slow VMs down after a while. I have a separate DC running in a standalone VM. It will chug along happily with 300MB of ram and all my other dev VMs are connected to that domain. I also run a free mail server called MailEnable on it for mail testing (haven’t really needed full Exchange all that much).
I find you get strange behaviour in SP running it on a domain controller, you can’t do the security properly and end up running everything as admin a lot of the time to get around quirks.
Wow … what a lot of responses!