Hi,
I need to get myself a protable laptop which has good battery life and can develops apps in the LAMP enviroment. The laptop is not replacing my desktop but I am on the move most of the day, I am looking at a Acer Timeline 13.3 Core Solo SU3500.
Does anyone know anything about this processor and if it is powerful enought to develop with?
Cheers
JJ.
Should be powerful enough. Especially if you use resource economical development environment (like vim/emacs).
Its just fine.
Whilst fast machines with fast solid-state disks and lots of RAM are definitely nicer to use today, this doesn't mean that a slow/cheap/old computer isn't perfectly adequate.
LAMP was first developed and even deployed on machines considerably slower than today's laptops.
Well, I had a pentium 4 not HT not dual-core no-nothing, with only 512 MB RAM for quite sometime, and I did lots of LAMP development on it.
Only problem I had was that I couldn't use a big IDE (mainly because of not having enough RAM).
So, a computer like this, with
Will probably be OK :-)
Maybe you won't be able to use Eclipse PDT ; but with a screen that size (1366 x 768), it wouldn't be much helpful anyway, I guess -- well, actually, with small fonts maybe it would maybe be OK...
(Provided you really use it for development, which means 1 user, a not too big database, ... )