Ask YC: Which notebook/laptop do you use (+ suggestions)?

Re:Ask YC: Which notebook/laptop do you use (+ suggestions)? by lux on Wednesday April 09, 2008 @03:55PM (#159181)

Is your MBP old? Why can't you just save that money and put a bit of it towards VMWare Fusion? The extra savings could come in handy for something else, especially if you're in the startup game :)

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Re:Ask YC: Which notebook/laptop do you use (+ suggestions)? by chengmi on Wednesday April 09, 2008 @04:23PM (#159212)

I couldn't agree more with this. You could also look into VirtualBox as a virtualization solution.

You might not want to choose this route if you want to use X windows because personally, switching back and forth between desktops is just plain annoying (and last I checked, Seamless mode only works with Windows). Also, if you're going to be testing hardware on linux, you'll probably be better off getting a new machine. But for all other cases, virtualization is the way to go.

My current setup is a Macbook with an Ubuntu 7.10 server VM for development (nothing beats apt).

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Re:Ask YC: Which notebook/laptop do you use (+ suggestions)? by pivo on Wednesday April 09, 2008 @06:36PM (#159338)

You could run the OSX X server instead and get seamless mode that way. It's free too.

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Re:Ask YC: Which notebook/laptop do you use (+ suggestions)? by bretthoerner on Wednesday April 09, 2008 @05:48PM (#159310)

Agree.

I got a MBP and immediately threw 4GB RAM into it (~$80 these days! Obviously buy it online and not from Apple). I now run an Ubuntu VM 24/7 that I keep minimized and just ssh into.

Odd, I know, but sometimes the OSX/BSDisms are too much for me. Also, we deploy on Ubuntu so it's a perfect setup for development. Mount your home via Samba if you want to use TextMate or something.

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