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 think you’ve peaked my interest enough to stand up one of these machines and give it a go.
Ha! Yes, backups are a must. Not so concerned about the SharePoint build out but source code is definitely in TFS with and a regular backup of the root machine. Couldn’t be without it.
I think that stating Azure is “expensive” is a slightly arbitrary statement as there is no context attached to it.
Perhaps as a contractor Azure is expensive, for an organisation, not so much. The cost associated to restore or data loss for laptop based roaming development machines has the potential to far outweigh any subscriber costs attached to using a service like Azure…
Even if you just look at the cost of running Azure compared to the cost of running a legitimately licenced dev laptop which will be £3k (hardware one off) plus recurring fees of £1.1k (partner MSDN) to £8k (full bad boy MSDN Ultimate) WHICH INCLUDES DISCOUNTED AZURE CREDITS.
Spending the £3k piece on subscriber services would give you about 36-48 months of an Azure 4 box config assuming you have a partner MSDN subscription (which gives you $150 per month Azure credits which are worth about $350 per month of real Azure resources) to top it up.
All of which you can access on your $99 Surface saving you the backache of humping a 10kg laptop around the planet.
Clearly connectivity is the potential risk, but minor in todays day and age IMHO.
Just sayin… 🙂
I’ve not seen performance issues attached to Azure – I’d be interested in hearing your troubles, I’ve been doing direct comparisons of VMs running in Azure and VMs running in a private Cloud I control and they are much of a muchness.
Azure is way to expensive at the moment.. and the performance is very mediocre compared to a laptop with an SSD IMO
With all this horsepower and data floating around the planet on Laptops, let’s hope you all have mighty reliable backups of your drives be they virtual or physical.
As Yoda once said about backups – “Do or do not, there is no try…”
p.s. I’m not using uber laptops at the moment, it’s Azure all the way…
Wow … what a lot of responses!