I'm looking to buy a laptop with the following specs for a developer. The goal will be to have a development machine supplementing the devs desktop. During work hours the dev will be on a beefy desktop. For working while on the go: trains, client sites, code camps, it would be nice to have a machine which can run Visual Studio 2008 without needing to remote desktop into their primary machine.
What do you think is the lowest cost laptop meeting this need? Here are the specs I have in mind:
SSD drive 64GB-doesn't need to be huge, most data is stored on servers. Will need to fit Windows 7, IIS, SQL Server, and Visual Studio 2010.
RAM-3GB
processor =Pentium Core 2 duo
Screen size = 14 inches.
OS doesn't matter. It will be paved with Windows 7 Ultimate
optical drive omitted would be a plus.
weight and battery life aren't so important because the machine will be plugged in almost all the time.