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.
Hi Jessie, yes – this topic is very popular now! Obviously, read above for some great answers, but I can’t recommend my Dell Precision M4700 enough. I have a 1TB drive (non SSD for VMs) and a 512 SSD (for my OS). The performance is awesome! In my case I needed space more than speed, so didn’t bother with 2 SSDs.
The other main thing to take away (reading this discussion) … get 32 Gb memory. SharePoint 2013 will love you forever. I can give my main vm 16 Gb and still have plenty spin up a 2010 at the same time.
Wow, this is an interesting topic. I’m planning to buy a laptop that will help me demo or present the SharePoint 2013 features and capabilities. I’m choosing between this two high end laptop HP EliteBook 8770w Mobile Workstation and Lenovo ThinkPad T430. I’ll be using this machine in development as well. I need your best choice in choosing the right machine for my needs. Thank you in advance.
Good points all, Mark, and only support the final conclusion!
@Seb — (don’t know why there’s not a reply button below your post) of COURSE we declare our imports! Besides, declaring the laptop means (as you infer) it can be put on the business, and even better, an honest-looking chap going through the red channel at customs to declare his laptop means they don’t even look at that new-looking ring on the wife’s finger (oops, there goes any savings from buying in the US).
Another thing, of course, buying in the UK means we get our VAT back, so it’s not quite as big a price-difference as all that.
Seb, bring me back a couple laptops next time you go, will you? 🙂
Some of you might want to put up some disclaimers about your encouragement of shirking import duties etc.
As a consultant trying to stay on the correct side of the HMRC, I couldn’t take this approach – how would I expense a laptop I’ve not paid import duty on?
🙂
Also Ron – the UK machine you list on Amazon is not as highly specced. It has the cheaper NVidia graphics, only 4GB RAM, no SSD and less processor cache. Also the 3610QM processor does not support all of the Intel virtualisation extensions. It *probably* won’t make that much difference in running VMs but then we are talking about heavyweight workstations here with a lot of load.
Wow … what a lot of responses!