Re: Mini or Small Laptop for .NET Development

I use Visual Studio all the time on a 1280x800 screen, or even on a 1024x768
projector (the way we pair for xUnit.net). It's completely tolerable if
you're not addicted to using your mouse. :) All sidebars are hidden and
accessible with keyboard shortcuts. The entire screen is otherwise devoted
to the text editor. If you can't visualize your methods in 1024x768, they're
too long! :)

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Brad    http://bradwilson.typepad.com/

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Richard Howells <Richard-yP/[email protected]>wrote:

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>  Gotta say I think VS sucks on a small screen.  Maybe you can tolerate it.
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> I’ll second the RAM/disk advice.  My last laptop had 2Gb.  It was really
> only enough to run VS or something else.  I like to run VS plus loads of
> stuff.  I recommend 4Gb and Win 7 64bit.  That combo is working beautifully
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> Whilst it’s a laptop in practice I rarely compute when I’m moving.  It’s
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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Paul van Brenk
> *Sent:* 01 December 2009 16:29
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [OT] Mini or Small Laptop for .NET Development
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> Try to get one with a lot of ram and a speedy disk, VS likes both. So a
> mini is a bad idea for 'serious' development.
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> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 17:22, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I am in the market for a small laptop, perhaps a mini, or perhaps up to 14
> inches, and running Windows 7, and capable of serious .net development and
> reading.  Any ideas?
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