Re:Ask HN:Best Development Laptop?
by smashd on Saturday December 10, 2011 @10:52PM
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I got a p151hm from Malibal with the better matte screen, 16gb of RAM and an i7 processor. I went with SSD in the main slot and had the optical drive swapped for a spinning hard drive.
This thing is a great workstation replacement: I run Linux as the host OS, with Windows 7 in a vmplayer VM for work. The VM gets two cores, 8 GB of ram and both sides stay really snappy. It also runs cool.
It's certainly no macbook though: in comparison the battery life is poor, it's heavier and the fans are a little noisier. None of these things have been an issue at all for my usage patterns: I walk to work with it and haven't noticed the weight, I use it plugged in at home and work, and ambient noise generally outweighs any fan considerations.
I couldn't recommend it more at this point. Malibal's customer service has been great, and I got more hardware for my buck than I could find from anyone else.
This thing is a great workstation replacement: I run Linux as the host OS, with Windows 7 in a vmplayer VM for work. The VM gets two cores, 8 GB of ram and both sides stay really snappy. It also runs cool.
It's certainly no macbook though: in comparison the battery life is poor, it's heavier and the fans are a little noisier. None of these things have been an issue at all for my usage patterns: I walk to work with it and haven't noticed the weight, I use it plugged in at home and work, and ambient noise generally outweighs any fan considerations.
I couldn't recommend it more at this point. Malibal's customer service has been great, and I got more hardware for my buck than I could find from anyone else.