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My phone + keyboard and monitor adapter
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My phone + keyboard and monitor adapter
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Desktop Machines are best when it comes to office or home use. They have great power at a cheaper rate than laptops.
If you create a gaming rig you can code and play whenever you want
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Sorry ... but how is this not a desktop (was CP paid for this  )??
Specks look ok ... will cost about $15k for the top of the line.
The two deal-breakers here for me are:
A. No room for a decent sized HDD (3.5") - Micro SSD ONLY (typical apple thinking "we know what's best, and why would anyone want an old HDD", HOW ABOUT SPACE, I want 4TB drives as well as SSD for the OS)
B. ATI video cards
Also my current dev box is a small computer (Alienware x51) with 2x 42" screens, don't plan on changing anything except the box.
I have a MacBook Pro Retina for development on the road.
Kris
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Yeah, I'd love it if Apple paid us for this. As long as they threw in a few of those bad boy Mac Pros as part of the deal 
I split the Mac Pro out from standard desktops because it had just been announced and was wondering if anyone was tempted. With no current price it's all speculation, but that's what these polls are about - wild unscientific speculation.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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My current one (3 or 4 years old Dell Latitude E-5510 17'' tuned with SSD and 6 Gb ram is not the best that you can find on the market, but it is still kicking the ass of the new laptops bought this year for new co-workers)
Docking station with extra monitors at office and (coming soon) at home to do offline-developing. My most actual projects are 98% of the time in the laptop because I always make the last corrections, adjustments at customers place, programming on the train in long trips if I am bored and so on.
So my vote, for work a Laptop.
But for private... I still love opening PC's and making everything I can on my own, with Laptops I am more sceptic/careful/afraid of opening it and changing something. So a PC will probably be my first option when I move with my girlfriend into a common house, I will build it as main multimedia center. Connected to TV with HDMI to see HD-films from online videoclub (I still don't trust so much the TV-Internet security) or Blue-rays / DVD's, a good sound-card with speakers dispersed in every room for online-radio. Good performance to play a bit when I need to disconect and have nothing better to do...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 21-Jun-13 13:25pm.
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I currently use a MacBook Pro for all my development and most likely my next machine will either been another or possibly a MacBook Air.
I have seen people doing some development on a maxed out MacBook Air and I am really impressed.
you want something inspirational??
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"Pen and Paper"?
That was how people wrote code years back and took it to the mainframe to check if it worked.
They actually thought about what and how the program should do.
Today, you use the computer as your code-fixing tool, not as your code development tool!
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Ah, the good olde days...
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Still many diagrams and ideas are on my papers, most of them are just scratches. I also love to design a program first without a computer and code it later.
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I still do it,
my professional field is automation, and I always start the sequencers on paper with graphcet and pseudocode structure (let's say it is like the UML in high-level languages). Then I play with coins following the steps and simulating the automatic process. When I am happy with the results, first start coding (language of the programm is customer's decission, but actually not so relevant if you already have a good base)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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And there is a difference because I have one now and I love it. Never used one before.
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That is what I will have at home. I mean my current 6 core / 12 threaded system still takes several hours building millions of lines of code or 10+ minutes building a typical 250 thousand line program. Haswell-E (arriving late 2014) seems like it will be the next upgrade that is unless AMD hits a homerun with Excavator and somehow surpasses my slightly overclocked i7 970 in single threaded performance.
John
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I've been looking at the specs (and prices) of machines and the sad thing is that a new MacBook Air is faster than my current quad core desktop. Add in speed increases from the faster memory and SSD on the Air and there's no contest.
My trusty Toshiba laptop is the lightest one around today but the battery's dying and it's too slow for real dev, so I really need a new travel laptop and a new desktop replacement. So why not just get them both together and buy a docking station for the office? No more RDP'ing to the office to access my "real" machine - I'll be developing locally on the laptop at home, while travelling, in the office - all on the same device.
Plus I don't have to buy a new UPS (mine died a year ago).
I could get a decent i7 Windows machine for under 1K, but start adding in RAM (if you can - some like the Samsung 9 won't let you), decent SSD, and ask for it to be light and the price shoots up again and you're typically also restricted to machines with Win8 pre-installed - and our experience with downgrading to Win7 has been spotty.
So my final needs are:
Travelling:
- 13" or above screen while travelling
- Less than 4lb/1.4Kg
- < 5hr battery life
- Sensible keyboard. No Power button where the delete button should be (Zenbook) or half-sized right-shift button (Lenevo, Toshiba).
General
- Faster than my desktop
- <= 8BG RAM
- 256GB HDD/SSD
- Able to power 3 x 19" monitors
- Can install Win7
Currently it's looking like a Macbook Air, or if the rumours of the new MacPro come to pass, then one of them.
So then it comes down to: Bootcamp or Parallels?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Bootcamp
Gave me a lot of troubles (e.g. Win 7 x64 was not working, but the x86 version worked fine) and all stuff like that.
Chris Maunder wrote: Parallels
Love it - Runs smooth without any issues, powers a Win7 and Win8 VM without any problems.
What I love most: Everything is backed up by the TimeMachine and there is this nice mode where it helps you running your Windows Programs under MacOS X without showing the rest of the actual VM (Needed if you have one part of the business software running on OS X and the other part runs on Windows).
cheers,
Marco
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Yeah - I am leaning towards Parallels because it means awesome battery life and also far easier testing against different OSs
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Yep - I'm a bit of a laptop geek and the only one there that's really interesting is (possibly) the Zenbook infinity - except the one major issue is getting one in Canada. I gave up a months-long quest to find the Zenbook 31 Touch here, and I have faint hopes the infinity will make it either.
The Toshiba Kirabook was something I was really looking forward to since I've used Portege's for years, but they went and made the right-shift a half-sized key and that kills the deal dead for me. I have that on a Lenevo Yoga and I find it impossible to type. (and don't even get me started on the Yoga's trackpad...)
No one has 802.11ac either. That's weird.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Yup, I wish manufacturers would stop changing keyboard layouts!
I'm now struggling to buy high-end laptops with proper return and shift keys.
It seems to have become fashionable to move or shrink these which is really annoying!
I could understand it if there was some improvement as a result - but I can't see any benefit.
I've also noticed a trend to move or drop the start button and windows context menu buttons (which I use quite a lot!)
grrrrrr 
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The Obliterator
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Don't know. I really like an idea of having a Unix machine with a decent GUI on top and Macs are the only ones that come close to that ideal. That said, I was in an Apple store yesterday and looking at different Macbooks - all of them really offer too little for the price. 15" MacBook Pro starts at 1800 USD and for that money you get 4 GB RAM, and an old-style 500GB HDD 
Sure, it is shiny and nice and well built, but compare it to something like Lenovo ThinkPad T530: for 1440 USD, you get 8 GB RAM, and SSD drive.
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Hey, Chris,
Thought you'd enjoy reading another "story" from my Apple dayz (in this same forum area) regarding multiple monitors (er, the "Two Monitors" post).
Cheers,
~ BryanC
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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McFly Vision.
That's awesome. 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Go MacBook Pro retina, with Bootcamp AND Parallels...
Setup bootcamp 1st and then you can use Parallels to load your windows apps when your in OSX... when you want better speed etc, reboot into bootcamp. Also Parallels VMs work much faster this way, their HDD image is much slower than the separate bootcamp partition.
Kris
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