RE: [aus-dotnet] Development notebook

[Sam Barber]

Slightly further off the original topic, but has anyone tried a Macbook
Pro running Windows for Visual Studio and other programming/database
work? 

I've been waiting for the new Intel chipset for a couple of months now
in laptops, and the Macbook is the first to be sold in our stores,
coming in this Thursday, and from it's specs it's everything I want:
$2899 15" LED backlit screen (1400x900), 2.2GHz CPU (new Core 2 Duo's),
2GB RAM standard, 120GB HD, 8600GT graphics card (very nice), wireless
N, 2.4kg and 5.5 hours battery life.  You can upgrade to a better
specced 15" or a 17" model, but I don't think they're worth the extra
money.

With those specs and battery life, it's pretty much everything I want
out of a laptop (plus some), but I'm only looking at bootcamping into
Windows and couldn't care less about OSX.  I'm mainly worried about not
having a right mouse button or Windows key, as I won't always have a
mouse to use, but if anyone knows any other reasons not to go for it,
I'd love to hear it, because I'm seriously considering this as an
option.

Sam.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: peter@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:peter@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Price,
Stephen
Sent: Monday, 11 June 2007 10:40 AM
To: dotnet@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [aus-dotnet] Development notebook

I do a little bit of dev on my XPS m1210 which is very similar. I've
blogged a few of the issues I came across but they were not really
related with development, more Vista related.
http://littlevoices.blogspot.com

I know Brian Madsen has an XPS m1710 and he did have some issues with
Orcas installation. You can find some stuff on his blog. 
http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/default.aspx

nice machine but the price tag is pretty heavy when it's spec'd up.

The XPS m1210's graphics card isn't as powerful as I'd wished for. The
XPS m1710 has a faster one but I wanted a more portable machine (and it
was $2000 cheaper).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: peter@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:peter@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom
> Rutter
> Sent: Friday, 8 June 2007 7:23 PM
> To: dotnet@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [aus-dotnet] Development notebook
> 
> Has anyone on this list had experience with the Dell XPS M1710
notebook
> for
> development? If so, what sort of experience? Good? Bad? Any problems?
> etc
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