Hardware / asp.ent development question

[emblewembl]

Hi guys,

Sorry for posting a message only vaguely related to asp.net but I thought you'd be a good bunch of people to ask! I am about to buy a new lap top which I'll be using primarily for asp.net development. Do any of you out there have any opinions on which make is betterthan others? I've been looking mostly at sony and toshiba lap tops. What size RAM minimum and processor speed should I get to make sure I have reasonable performance? Hope someone out there has some good opinions!! Thanks

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[Tarwn]

Well, this isn't one of the .Net forums but I would suggest a decent amount of RAM (512). I think the devel environment should be fine with any CPU in the P4 class, I've found the RAM to be the biggest issue in the past as it eats quite a bit. You might be able to get away with 256Mb of RAM, but 128 is going to give you lag measurable in minutes (in my experience).
The biggest slowdowns in the environment are during initial load, building/compiling, and closing. Both the machines I have the .Net IDE installed on have minimum 512Mb of RAM. My previous machine (Toshiba) only had a 1Ghz CPU and 128Mb of RAM, it was extremely slow to do anything. A coworker had a P4 1.8Ghz with only 128Mb of RAM and things were still extremely slow, which is why I suggest the RAM as being a bigger bottleneck.

Just opening the IDE and a new [empty] .Net windows form puts the devenv.exe process at 66,308k memory usage (for example). Building and running that blank form add's an additional 5-7000k to the devenv and 13,712k forthe actual empty form application. Not sure how many other background processes are tied into this (the runtime is being used by a couple things in addition right now, so don't know how much of that to attribute to the IDE). The IDE uses a remarkable inconsistent amount of memory, that 60,000k earlier has switched to 20,000k now tat I opened something else, not sure whats up with that....guess it depends on how much has ben saved to disk.

-T

 

[emblewembl]

Thanks so much, that is really useful!

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