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 use an MBP w/Retina 16Gb is fine, but I run my VM’s on external thunderbolt SSD drives, considering getting an external thunderbolt RAID 0 array w/SSD drives
I have a 15′ late 2011 macbook pro with 16 gb ram and a 3tb external HD drive (usb v 3) for vms. So far it works like a charm
Don’t forget that your MSDN Premium subscription nets you a $100 credit per month on Azure. IIRC an A6 VM (4 x CPUs and 28GB of RAM – sufficient for an ‘all-up’ AD, SQL, SP, Visual Studio environment) will cost $0.82 per hour.
If you left that running 24/7 you’re looking at about $510 per month ($610 – $100 MSDN credit). Assuming you only run it for 10 hours per day, 5 days a week though, that goes down to something closer to $65 per month ($164 – $100 MSDN credit).
Clearly there are considerations other than cost:
- Integration with other systems
- Sensitivity of the code you’re developing – I’m still seeing customers who refuse to allow the code we’re developing for them ever end up on a public cloud based system
- The requirement that you need an internet connection to be able to work
It’s an interesting proposition I think, especially for teams which may shrink or grow often. The difference in the overhead of spinning up an extra dev VM on Azure vs. sourcing hardware capable of hosting a local dev environment is night and day.
Surely you can’t be running SP VMs on only 8GB though?
Yes I know what you mean. The idea of having a much lighter machine appeals to me. Also the battery life of the new models is fantastic. Would need to get top of the range 13″ version (my MacBook Pro is the 13″) with the 8GB Ram, 512SSD and i7 processor. Just wish you could have 16GB of Ram…
Wow … what a lot of responses!