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.
Lenovo W530 with i7 processor. 500 GB and 750 GB 7200 RPM HDDs. 32 GB RAM. Running Windows 8.1. OS is on one drive, VMs are on the other.
I’ve been running this for about two months solid now and get great performance. I run a four-server virtual farm for demos, dev work, etc. The domain controller is set to dynamic memory and usually runs at less than 1 GB RAM. SQL runs on a static 8 just fine. Have OWA/WAC server set to a static 4. SharePoint server is running at a static 10.
I agree with everyone else that SSDs are the way to go if you can get them.
Wow … what a lot of responses!