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 am using W530 (32GB ram, 512 SSD) for more than a year. It has power, long battery life etc. But having seen some of my friends moving to Mac book pro Retina, I am tempted now to go for Mac book pro (16gb, 512 ssd) now.
As far as I know, it`s not yet available in Canada. On the lenovo website they still only have the w540
Anyone purchased the Lenovo w540 yet for SP Development? Thoughts?
Agreed but then I personally had a W530 with 32GB and a 512GB Crucial M4 inside it. This new Retina Macbook Pro I have still wiped the floor with it, even with the VM running 8 or 10GB vs the 16 I was giving it on the Lenovo. Biggest difference is the PCI express attached storage. it is insanely fast.
There is little real world difference in the speed of processors between w520 and w530. These machines have always been more IO bound than processor bound in general.
It’s a W520 not W530 btw so processor is not same generation. Furthermore, he did not talk about the quality of the SSD’s he had inside , as well as he made the error of installing Windows 8.1 on the W520 which is not supported and might include performance issues with SSD Drivers.
Applie Biased :).
Wow … what a lot of responses!