Laptop Recommendation

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Mar 19th, 2009, 09:56 AM
StrangerInBeijing

Laptop Recommendation

Hi,

I better ask my boss to get me a new laptop when he go back next week.
About to start a new project, need to run asp.net 3.5, sql server 2008 and the whole lot on my laptop. (cause i work wherever I go. desktop is not an option).

Got a decent machine here (Asus m51s) that give me a 5.0 score in Vista, but it was dropped (not me) and once in a few weeks the whole system come tumbling down and I waste a day or two reinstalling everything.

Any of you guys got a laptop that score 5.9 or close, and run all a full development environment smoothly? (I'm a bit bad, want to recommend the most fast, powerful laptop possible)

I don't care about the weight or size being too much.
Mar 19th, 2009, 11:02 AM
vbcode1980

Re: Laptop Recommendation

I'm a Dell fan so I'd go for a Dell Precision or XPS laptop. They're expensive, but good. :)
Mar 19th, 2009, 11:06 AM
StrangerInBeijing

Re: Laptop Recommendation

Solid State hard drives are much faster right? besides price, what's downside?
Mar 19th, 2009, 12:53 PM
stanav

Re: Laptop Recommendation

Quote:

Originally Posted by StrangerInBeijing

Solid State hard drives are much faster right? besides price, what's downside?

Size... SSD's don't have the same capacity as the old magnetic HDD's do, at least at these days.
Mar 19th, 2009, 01:35 PM
JuggaloBrotha

Re: Laptop Recommendation

solid state drives are cool.

I'm a huge fan of dell laptops, usually I buy the inspiron's because of the cost and my newest one (the 1525) runs vs 2005/2008 and sql server 2005/2008 pretty smoothly on Vista (despite vista's resource hogging) once the comp's turned on and has everything loaded.
Mar 19th, 2009, 11:02 PM
Lord Orwell

Re: Laptop Recommendation

go with the regular drive. And as for laptops, since you are interested in performance, go for one of the "desktop replacement" models instead of a notebook. They are a little bigger, but upgradeable. You can even upgrade the video cards in some of them. Alienware even has a model with two cards in SLI. Of course your boss wouldn't drop that much cash, but the bigger ones are usually cheaper as well due to the ease of construction.
Mar 20th, 2009, 08:20 AM
JuggaloBrotha

Re: Laptop Recommendation

Didn't Dell buy Alienware a couple years ago?
Mar 20th, 2009, 10:37 AM
StrangerInBeijing

Re: Laptop Recommendation

Seems so, cause they got listed together in the Dell Website

Currently tempted for a XPS M1730
Mar 20th, 2009, 11:00 AM
Lord Orwell

Re: Laptop Recommendation

alienware made really, REALLY ugly pc cases. Dell makes professional looking ones. I wonder what a hybrid case would look like?