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a big YES. Have last years' model - highly recommended.
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Good then.
Although...
My dad's old Asus just stopped working and won't power on now. Just like my old Sony...
Our neighbor is crazy, and I have heard that she is a witch...
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Our neighbor is crazy, and I have heard that she is a witch...
Does her weight equal that of a duck? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I have the RealSense version of that laptop, complete with 1TB hard drive. I can definitively state that it's a great development laptop. Visual Studio is positively zippy and builds are rapid.
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If I would make one tweek, I'd double the size of the SSD and toss the spinner. Further, look into the specs to see if you have a spare mSATA interface. On my Dell Precision, I had one spare (was for the WAN wireless adapter). I dropped a Samsung 840 EVO Series 500GB mSATA3 Solid State Drive into it to match my main SSD.
The RAM is a good investment, since more and more dev is being done in virtual machines.
You'll be happy.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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If you're not doing gaming/3d development, the GTX 980m is an expensive battery eater. Otherwise looks solid.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Looks good. MIne is a MSI G70 Stealth with 500GB primary SSD and 1 TB SSD secondary drive. and 16GB of RAM. Sucks battery bigtime, but I have 4 VMs running without problem.
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I bought a Dell Laptop (Dell XPS 17) a couple of years ago, not quite as much memory or drive space. But it makes a phenomenal dev system. On the other hand, the battery life isn't great, and it is a bit of a pig to lug around. And finding a good carry case for it is also a bit of a challenge with that screen size.
All in all, a good choice I thought.
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Ah, who cares 
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Apparently you! 
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Forsooth!
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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One of the data sources I have an ETL (SSIS) for changed last week. There are some date values coming in as strings  and the format changed from DD-MON-YY to MM/DD/YYYY. 
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Try this:
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Doesn't help if you use ParseExact or TryParseExact
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Doesn't help when using SQL and/or SSIS either.
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I didn't say there was a problem; and I did mention SSIS.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: date values coming in as strings
PIEBALDconsult wrote: DD-MON-YY to MM/DD/YYYY.
I am no longer surprised when I come across a developer who does not understand that a date is a number and there is no format to the native representation of a date
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 1-Jul-15 2:01am.
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Hit them in the head with ISO 8601.
Anyone else than me reading that as PO'H. 
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I do, I do.
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Hey CPers,
I have a possible upcoming contract doing some medical billing development which is obviously going to involve some pretty serious HIPAA regulation territory. I've been a 1099 independent contractor before but never in an area which is so legally sensitive and security-centric.
Does anyone have any experience to share as to whether or not, as the sole developer on this project, I need to worry about purchasing some kind of insurance or bonding just for CYA purposes, or does the legal wording that I put in the agreement in regards to no warranty implied on my part, not responsible for anything whatsoever from someone using my software, etc., suffice as far as protection from litigation from God knows who all - from the feds at HIPAA on down to the end client?
Thanks Everyone!
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute
"Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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Seems to me that asking a lawyer that deals with those kinds of legal issues would be better.
You can lead a developer to CodeProject, but you can't make them think.
The Theory of Gravity was invented for the sole purpose of distracting you from investigating the scientific fact that the Earth sucks.
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