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.
3K£ is a overstatement.
W520 Laptop: 800$
32GB Ram : 250$
2x 480GB SSD + 1x 128GB SSD = 1000$.
2250$ US for the laptop.. and you can run anything on it.
Now in Azure.
1X Server with SQL & SharePoint in a A6 VM (28GB Ram, 4 CPU) = 1584$ per month.
-200$ MSDN Credit = 1300$ per month.
And the disk is SLOWWWW. On my laptop I install SP2013 binaries in 2min45 sec with AutoSPInstaller. Same thing in the cloud = 12 minutes.
Wow … what a lot of responses!