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.
There’s also a big discussion on this here : http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Best-Laptop-SharePoint-Developers-Consultants-43166.S.45529635?qid=3063b35f-97f1-4eee-80ae-cc364c835568&trk=groups_most_popular-0-b-ttl&goback=%2Egmr_43166%2Egmp_43166
So I just swapped the Lenovo I had for a new Haswell based Macbook Pro (2.7GHz, 16GB ram, 1TB PCI storage)
The new memory compression in Mavericks is making the 16GB fine for development purposes and the 1TB PCI drive is insanely fast, 950MB/s read and write speeds. Basically double SSD speeds!
(anyone want to buy a 32GB Lenovo W530?)
Well i use a higher rez, like 2800 something , works just fine. Do allot of Photoshop and SP branding, so having retina makes it easy to work.
I have used VMware but like paralleles better on the Mac . Seems to be a little faster, but they are pretty much the same. If take VHD images then VMware has a good importer that parallel don’t have.
Nice! 🙂 How do you find working on the retina screen? does parallels do pixel doubling so it looks like 1440×900 or do you work at different res? Also have you tried vmware? wondered which was better on the mac for VMs…
Im using a MacbookPro Retina. VM width Parallels, works very nice!
DC: 512ram, 1 core.
SP 2013 App & SQL: 9gb ram, 6 cores.
When running SP my VM CPU is on +-20-40% . Uses about 60% of memmory, when search is crawling it go up on 90%. (Crawling set to manual.)
oooo, and SSD for speed 😉
Wow … what a lot of responses!