What's the Minimum System Spec Recommended For Developer Laptop

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Published on 2010-04-10T14:11:38Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 14:13 UTC
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I'll be regularly running Visual Studio 2010 Professional, SQLServer Express, Office and at least 1 virtual environment running a Linux Distro. I want the machine to be snappy and responsive even when doing a reasonable amount of Development work. I want to spend what it takes for this, but I don't want to go overboard spending more than I need to. I won't be playing many games or graphics processing so i won't need a monster of a machine.

Any recommendations?

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