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I have three days to get a new laptop that can run Visual Studio 2010.
Normally I have two instances open, an instance of SQL Management studio, IIS and a few web browsers.
What are the specs I should look at targeting?
I haven't bought a laptop in over 5 years, so I'm way out of touch with where they are at as far as specs go.
Thanks.
ps. Budget isn't a huge concern, but I'm trying to keep it reasonable.
pps. I am used to running on a blade with dual Intel Xeon 3.00GHz processors and 8GB RAM, so I prefer a responsive system.
...ah yes, close votes start rolling in without comments. lovely. – CaffGeek – 2011-11-17T16:24:49.150
2Get lots of memory, a decent quad core CPU and an SSD that is large enough for both OS + your projects / code. – driis – 2011-11-17T16:25:39.833
I'm gonna guess the close votes are for "Off Topic".. – Mike Christensen – 2011-11-17T16:26:25.467
PS, I would guess the close votes migrates to SuperUser.com, since this isn't really a programming question (as defined by the site). – driis – 2011-11-17T16:26:33.623
@driis, yes, that makes sense... I had seen other hardware questions on SO, however they were all a few years old it didn't click that there was probably a different site this should have been asked on. That's the one downside to the SE network...you don't always know where a question is considered on topic as it can change when a new site pops up. I thought SuperUser was more for general application questions, not hardware (specifically related to running a tool for a programmers job), apparently I was mistaken. And perhaps they should have the close and migrate button separated? – CaffGeek – 2011-11-17T16:32:12.687
Still, it's basically a shopping recommendation. We don't really do these specific hardware recommendations, as they quickly become outdated and aren't useful for a broader audience. Just look at the answers: Who in one or two years would want to know if now, a 160GB SSD is needed for your development laptop. Or a quad core CPU. – slhck – 2011-11-17T18:35:48.120
Super User doesn't do shopping recommendations. Drop by chat if you want to listen to some reccos
– Sathyajith Bhat – 2011-11-17T18:36:41.333I guess you can close away. However, I'm not asking for shopping recommendations, I'm asking for the reasonable specs required to run a specific combination of software reasonably. Those don't go out of date... other than that in 10 years nobody will be using Visual Studio 2010. ...but that's the same for all application questions on this site. So where do you recommend I ask this question? It was migrated here from SO. Which seemed like the right place, who better to ask than fellow users of the program. – CaffGeek – 2011-11-17T18:41:03.470