For HP 2133 Mini:
I'm planning to install Visual Studio 2005 (assuming it's faster than 2008). I've seen http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8440/visual-studio-optimizations question so I'll take those into the account.
But do you think Visual Studio 2005 is going to work in an acceptable speed with this hardware?
Its all about screen size. Anything less than 14/15 (inches) is not going to be usable.
Would be a bit sluggish when compiling, but otherwise should be OK. I'd suggest a bit more RAM though. It's cheap these days and upgrading from 1GB to 2GB will really have an effect, especially if you're also running other programs in the background.
Plus, then you might consider this.
It depends on what you mean by acceptable. In my experience a 7200RPM hard drive will boost VS.NET 2005 performance speed as it is a very IO intensive application.
Hello,
That depends on the kinds of projects you intend to work on on the laptop. Visual Studio will certainly run just fine (2-4 GB of RAM would be better), but if you have large solutions you will see some performance degradation. Also, acceptable speed is in the eye of the beholder. It would probably drive me crazy, but others might be just fine with that machine.
Also, check out Scott's post here:
HTH
Colby Africa
That laptop is probably pushing the lower limit of "good enough". If you're writing a resource intensive app, it probably will be pretty slow when you're debugging. For a web site, you'll probably only slow down when the IDE is doing something intensive.
I would go for at least 2gb of RAM and a descent screen size, I agree with StingyJack and wont go for anything less than 15"
The requirements of VS 2005 is one thing, but keep in mind that you will probely use servel other applications at the same time.
My laptop has a 17" screen, it works but at times i still miss the 22" wide screen I use at work.
Great answers, I'll add more RAM (as mentioned they are really cheap). I'm restricted with the monitor so it'll be 8.9 :)
The idea is I'll use this laptop do some presentation around, and If I need to debug or hack it on the way I should able to do it. There won't be any actual development other than, small hacks (hopefully!).
Scott Hanselman has a good post about using netbooks for Visual Studio development. His post specifically covers the Dell mini, but a lot of what he says applies to other netbooks as well.
a 4:3 ratio screen will be much better then a 16:9, you will have much more vertical space