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Is that all? That's just the bar bar for the train from Waterloo to Hindhead...:TunelessWhistleSmiley:
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Have you been to Hindhead? I'd need a lot more before I went there again!
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
"Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
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I went through there every Elephanting day in the rush hour for seven or eight years (before they started work on the tunnel). I never stopped there voluntarily...but away from the A3 it's OK, apparently.
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OriginalGriff wrote: but away from the A3 it's OK, apparently.
If you believe that, I have a bridge you might be interested in...
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
"Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
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I say "apparently" because I went boozing there one night. Or at least I think it was one night - it could easily have been a few days as well given the friends I was drinking with. I seemed to have had a good time, but I don't remember much at all...and any town where I could get that drunk in those days and still get home with more cash than I started with couldn't be all bad! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Have you asked Dave? He might be able to do you a deal, provided you want a Red one!
He's even gone one further than apple, by making it bucket shaped.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That makes sense.
When you find its got Win 8 and you can't get it off, you can kick the bucket...
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I recently bought a new workstation. It has a current generation i5 and 8GB of RAM. If you can get 8, I'd go for it. And if you're doing Windows development, you're going to want to go Win8 (I would recommend Win8 unless you have a real reason to go with Linux, but then I've been shamelessly singing its praises since before RTM). If you can get one, a multitouch touchpad is helpful (I have a Logitech T650 for my workstation). I much prefer that to a mouse when working with Win8.
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Hi Nagy, quick response before I go on a plane to Ibiza (Amsterdam no more good due to my knee, cannot walk to much..).
On the serious side I just bought a new SONY VAIO for my friend (he paid it, 499 CHF, great machine) I have an Acer 5250 ASPIRE at home and I like it, got it for 600 CHF.. With 0.69 rate enter your budget..
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4GB RAM is fine - I've had an i5 laptop for about 2 years where I was doing all sorts of SQL Server, Oracle, VS development. However, having recently forayed into Ubuntu (yuck) and Ruby on Rails, 8GB became absolutely necessary to run Ubuntu in a VM. Fortunately, I've been able to get all the RoR stuff to work under Windows so I can do all my development there. Yay!
Marc
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Funny that. I run Ubuntu with W indows virtual machines and get away with 2GB RAM. It must be some bloatware you're using to put up VM. What host are you using?
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Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: It must be some bloatware you're using to put up VM. What host are you using?
I'm using Virtual Box. It would be fine, but in the VM I was running Ruby on Rails with the RubyMine IDE doing lots of feature test runs, and it's slow, plus switching to Windows using my own Intertexti application (see article somewhere here, haha) for taking meeting notes, etc. Which is why it was really nice when I solved various problems with native gems to get the whole web app running under Windows with RailsInstaller and Cygwin.
Marc
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Rails-I mentioned one Ruby automation ute I wrote for softie admin at one company, and now I get loads of job ads aimed at Rails experts.
My favourite fun time is Mono c# on Linux(I'm tight, only free stuff); one toy I've written is a cross-platform encryption pad( GUI-based of course so that anybody's mum could use it).
Should I put the project up in an article, you think?
Maybe not.
When I put it on my anon FTP, the host had a 'policy change' and stopped anon. Nudge nudge, wink wink.
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Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: and now I get loads of job ads aimed at Rails experts.
I haven't update my online resume to include the Rails work I've been doing - I've got more than enough work at the moment and more in the pipeline, but its good to know there's a demand out there, even though RoR has only something like .2% of the web development market (some stat I saw on CP a couple months ago.)
Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: Should I put the project up in an article, you think?
Suer, why not?
Marc
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Take care with the resolution available with an external monitor. I have a 2 year old Samsung that was very expensive, i7, 8gb, ssd, blah blah. It wont do more than 1024*768 resolution on an external monitor..
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_Josh_ wrote: It wont do more than 1024*768 resolution on an external monitor..
What connector is used to connect to the external monitor?
Can't believe anything that new couldn't do better.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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_Josh_ wrote:
It has hdmi and vga
HDMI can do 1920 x 1080 and I've had VGA doing greater than that on a DELL E43?0 and E61?0.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I know it's a little over your budget - but hey, the girls won't need uniforms for another three years 
Go the MacBook air
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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Maybe you should look to have a DisplayPort also (this is for external displays with resolutions bigger than 1920x1200). i5 should be enough (I have an i3 and it's still good), but definitely go with more than 4 Gb RAM and an SSD.
If you can't explain something to a six year old, you really don't understand it yourself. (Albert Einstein)
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Take a look in the BT shop. (Unless it is restricted to customers only). I saw an i3 with 4G and a 320 drive plus a 20G ssd(don't ask me how that works) for £350. Built-in DVD RW.
Or pad out a used Elitebook with new bits for a couple of hundred(smelly I know).
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I recently bought a refurbished DELL XPS 1730 for development purposes that meets the mini-specification you cited in all particulars: 32 GByte SSD, 1 TByte normal hard disk, 4G Bytes RAM, DVD reader-writer, and so forth. $700 on eBay, and there were others available at the same price. I'm quite happy with it.
Among persons I know who've bought refurbished laptops, the experiences appear to be generally positive. The machines we've purchased have proved reliable...so far!
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• i5/i7
• 7200rpm drive, but SSD much preferred
• RAM = 8G or more (RAM is cheap)
/ravi
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Why a laptop?
Do you really require it to be a laptop?
If you don't require mobility, better get a Desktop, you will get something twice better, if you select a Desktop, for the same price...
The aim is easy, get as much as you cant. RAM, Processor and Video Card (I you will not work with heavy video/images or gaming you can same some buck without an expensive Video Card)
Now if you really need a Laptop...
Again, get as much as you can pay, laptops are one buy without real possibilities of upgrade, so get as much as you can pay, be sure to get a lot of RAM (8GB as minimum) and Processor, for sure a Laptop will not be used for Video/Image unless you pay like 3000+ UDS for a Graphic performance laptop (stupid because a 1000 USD desktop will do better)
But my last advice is: if you will do heavy work, better get a Desktop, laptops always die by heat...
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You didn't specify what development tools you intend to use on your new laptop. I tend to do my development in VMs so when I finish a project I can either delete or backup the VM and move onto the next project. I work with the Microsoft development stack and found that development with Visual Studio and any version of SQL Server other than the CE edition on an i3 with 6GB of the 8GB RAM available dedicated to the VM brought the machine to its knees due to swapping. It would work with that configuration as long as I worked directly on the host O/S rather than in a VM. In this case the host and VM OSes were Windows 7 Ultimate. About 9 months ago I was upgraded to Windows 8 Enterprise on an i7 with 16GB RAM and have not had any problems using VS and SQL Server in a Windows 7 Ultimate VM with the VM getting 10 - 12 GB of RAM. The i3 laptop had a 5400 RPM physical hard drive and the i7 laptop has a 7800 RPM hard drive.
Of course, YMWV (your mileage will vary).
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