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Development Laptops and windows vista professional

So, I'm planning on buying a laptop for development purposes.

I want a windows based machine, however since I want to run IIS (a requirement for sql server) I need the professional edition of the software.

All vendors seem to provide only the home edition of the OS.

I don't want to buy the home edition only to have to buy the professional version.

Are companies which will offer the professional edition of the OS pre installed on the machine?

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Dell do (click Customise and Buy).

Colin Desmond  2009-05-22 08:40:33
Dell are generally very expensive though?
ListenToRick  2009-05-22 08:46:53
In my experience, you get what you pay for. Dell are relatively expensive, but their machines are well designed, well built, well supported (important if doing professional development) and reliable.
Colin Desmond  2009-05-22 08:48:56
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I bought an HP with Home Premium and did an Anytime upgrade to Ultimate. Home Premium comes with IIS.

Program.X  2009-05-22 08:42:55
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Found someone who does just this! Company is called insight :)

ListenToRick  2009-05-22 08:46:13
Hey, you got down-voted too. Or you did. My comment was correct so who knows why?
Program.X  2009-05-22 08:51:20

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