The time to rebuild my development machine had arrived again. I’ve been running Vista 32 bit for about a year. I was basically happy with Vista as a development machine, but something else had bothered me over the last couple of months. All the mundane crap that was clogging my system. For example, Skype, Trillian, ITunes, Hamachi, PDF readers, MS Office … The list goes on and on… I want a super lean installation of Windows 2008 Server x64, Visual Studio 2008, Sql Server 2008 x64, TortoiseSVN, VisualSVN...
This is the last part of this 3 part post on purchasing a new notebook. In Part I and Part II I layed out some of the background work in order to know what to look for while shopping for the new computer. And finally it's shopping time... I spent a few hours at NotebookReview , CNet , NotebookForums.com and a few other sites. I rather quickly came up with a list of models that I would like. Alienware Area-51 DELL XPS M1710 Apple Macbook Pro IBM Thinkpad T60p Some brands are missing from this list...