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.
Anybody saw that the W540 only supports 16GB of ram while the W530 suported 32GB? Anyone got the W540.
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I don’t understand one thing – why would you need this locally all the time.
For presentations, where internet is a mess – I can understand. Otherwise – You can spend much much less money on a desktop and use RDP for development purpose. Enjoy a normal light weight laptop all the time. Internet connections have gone so better you can even expose your system to the outside on a custom changed RDP port for security and get into them from wherever you want.
That is what I do….. I don’t see a need for having a 32GB laptop for SP 2013 Dev machine. I would rather spend money of desktop/server config and RDP into it.
I have a Dell Precision M6700, Intel Core i7, 32Gb RAM, Windows 8, 256GB SSD + 750Gb HDD. I’m using Hyper-V with 7 servers (1 DC, 1 Exchange server, 1 Office Web Apps 2013, 2 SP2013, 1 SQL 2012 and 1 SP2010).
Most of the time, the DC, 2 SP2013 and SQL Server is running at the same time. Runs fine with 32Gigs of RAM.
The M6700 however is not the most portable laptop though. It’s huge (17″), heavy and comes with a power supply with the size of a small laptop itself 🙂
“I honestly don’t get why you’d spend more cash to get something that isn’t that much quicker”
That bit isn’t true. I had a 32GB W530 with SSD, my Macbook pro pisses all over it. Yes I know it is counter intuitive but that’s the reality..As I say, I am not the only one to think so so either it’s not just normal fanboy talk.
The other bit that used to really annoy me was in this day and age I would still get driver issues, plugging my Lenovo into an external monitor via VGA port for demos would blue screen. On Windows 8 with all the official Lenovo drivers installed.
You just don’t get that crap with a Mac. This isn’t meant to be a Mac v Windows things, I have used both extensively but IMO currently, the Mac is the fastest SP dev kit there is unless you have a specific need to run multiple full dev SP VMs. That use case turned out to be quite rare (I thought it would be common which is what pushed me to my Lenovo in the first place). In your case, the Dell obviously makes sense. Also the memory compression in OSX Mavericks does a lot to help as well.
In the last job, I had 3 x 4GB SP2010 VMs all running at full tilt with large PS installs and it never batted an eyelid. The paging was mitigated by the faster I/O. Yes SP2013 is more memory intensive and you can easily run as 12GB dev VM on it too.
Wow … what a lot of responses!