M6500 for VMware + Visual Studio 2008/2010: A good idea?

I got this one. As already said, the pic quality is brilliant. And the integrated cam and mic quality is good enough, at least for skype.

Go for it and good luck!

 

Why not SSDs as secondary and third drive too? Especially for VMware SSDs offer an improved performance. IMO you really should consider this!

 

Am I the only person who thinks this is completely bogus?
I've calibrated my beehind off, but I still can't get it to look 'right'. And the default profiles are a joke.

 

nzf,

I’ll be using this as a VMware lab machine and usually we tend to run out of disk space and memory. I’m looking for the total amount of accessible disk space at this point prior to having to utilize external storage. The bonus is that it seems as though we’ll have a 64GB SSD for the primary OS (Windows 7 at this point) with the ability to at least have a few VMs run off that drive with the others running on the non-SSD.

The MVs will never be run as ‘production’ systems so I’m thinking we should be okay with the standard drives and one SSD.

I do like the thought of all SSDs though.

 

You're probably going to run out of space pretty quickly on a 64Gb drive IMO.

And besides, if you're using it for testing I would imagine you'd actually want faster results than production. None of the notebooks or desktops I regularly use have hard disks anymore and it's the single biggest change that's affected me in the last few years. I can't bear to use other peoples computers now.

 

Is there a 17 inch Latitude? I dont see it on the dell site..
Thanks

 

No. There is a 17-inch Precision (top-of-the-line laptop from Dell, very powerful graphics card, etc, and very expensive), and a 17-inch Vostro (typical business laptop, weak graphics card, otherwise good quality).

 

Ok, available space might be an argument for classic hard drives. I have only a limited number of VMs on my M6500 (4 VMs right now taking 90GB, about 320GB still free). So 2 x 256GB SSDs are doing very well for me.

However, on my desktop workstation I have to deal all the time with capacity issues. I solved the problem (at least for now) by installing an external drive system from Buffalo (4 x 1TB hard drives, USB 2.0). On this one I store VMs not used on a regular basis.

 

What's exactly the problem? Colors? Brightness? I have Adobe RGB enabled with brightness set to 100%. And it looks phantastic, at least to me. When comparing this to my old Lenovo notebook I used before I got the M6500, I have to say, that the difference is huge. The pic quality is even better than on my DELL 30" 3007WFP.