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.
Correct, and thanks for the tip on how to do it Vlad. It worked perfectly fine :).
My opinion is this issue can be a good compromise given the performance of the laptop. If you are presenting all the time, this can get annoying; however if you present on a weekly basis, then maybe have a server back in your office and use your MAC or Surface to present from 🙂
Only “Issue” with W520/W530 is the Projector “Duplicate” lol. you need to put it in discrete mode in Bios
I am on Lenovo W530 with 32 GB RAM and 2 SSDs (OS and an additional one), total of 440GB. I might be adding an extra 260GB SSD. This runs on Windows 8 with Hyper-V for all my SharePoint 2013 farm servers. I run on it all the time: 1 AD, 1 SQL 2012, 2 SP servers and it runs smooth. No issues at all. Highly recommended.
Hmm, I wouldn’t say I see any reason to have laptop w/ SharePoint inside. Use laptop w/ a few external monitors to RDP to the VMs environment within onpremis/Azure/CLoudShare or any other highly performance environment.
The idea has to do with a proper development process in place. TFS/autobuild/CI, diverse UAT/test environment and so on. It used to be 2007+2010, now it is even more: 2007+2010+2013 – as we work w/ different client, on different project and farm configurations. Projects might require different AD config, search or other either highly loaded or infrastructure related stuff (3rd part integration). It has never been ab one SP inside one PC, hmm..
In turns, this require quite a bit resources managed by either Hyper-V/SCVMM, and delivered with options to allow people created different VMs in 10-15 minutes (something like SCVMM templates).
In general, it looks like this unless the project to work on has to do w/ simple web part and 100 lines of c#/JavaScript code, nit sure actually. Let’s say we have team of 12 people do what might be the price/config and strategy for “a proper” laptop, then?
Personally saying, my home env contains Lenovo T420 laptop + 2 external 27′ monitors + external PC with Asus motherboard (it is up to have 2 Xeon CPU inside!); Xeon CPU inside (6 physical/12 virtual CPU), 64G RAM, several HDD/SSD. Nothing on laptop at all.
As for current/prev workplace, we use SCVMM/Hyper-V to build up/manage a proper development environment and deliver the best product we can.
All these drives me sort of curious on what and how people do on their ‘win8 laptops’. Let’s setup search on these laptops, nintex workflow, put some content and see how it all ends up, then 🙂
ASUS sells through a number of retail outlets, but most of those don’t have configurable options. The Where to Buy page on the ASUS Web site lists the options.
I got mine through GenTechPC and they built it for me to my specs.
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Wow … what a lot of responses!