A least 8GB of RAM

July 30, 2012

Posted By:  cyplo

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Status: Implemented

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Hi !
For my development environment anything below 8GB RAM would not work
Thanks


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Status Update:  The XPS 13 Developer Edition comes with 8GB of RAM.  Thank you for posting!

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  • Aug 22, 2012     Comment Link

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    Posted By: thesheep

    We can only hope that after this first attempt at Sputnik, it will get extended to other laptop models. After all, developer needs can be very varied.

    By the way, when I mentioned about running the virtual machines on a server, I was thinking about having that server in your office, so that you don't need excellent internet connection. You still work from your laptop, and you can still take it to meetings or go hide with it from the noise, but it doesn't need to have such high specs then. Then again, you can't easily work from home, which is a down side.
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  • Aug 21, 2012     Comment Link

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    Posted By: mwildam

    thesheep, your arguments are good, you are right, I could use the VMs differently.

    Unfortunately I do not have always best quality internet service. Sometimes I have to be able to work offline. On the other hand - if e.g. WLAN is very slow, I have alternatives through mobile internet sticks or via mobile phone (although with traffic limitation).

    I really promote your idea to provide a lightweight ultrabook and the second alternative for a bigger machine (a few weeks ago I ordered a Latitude E6530 - that is something I currently prefer over an Ultrabook).
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  • Aug 8, 2012     Comment Link

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    Posted By: thesheep

    You have to remember that it is an ultrabook. Where are you going to fir 16GB of ram?

    It's very easy to make outrageus demands like this, but perhaps a lightweight laptop is not the best hardware for running multiple virtual machines? You would surely be much better off (and it would be much cheaper) to run those virtual machines on a server with lots of ram and virtualization support in its multicore cpu -- and to use them remotely on your laptop, which can then have better screen, higher quality keyboard and touchpad and longer lasting battery!

    Just an opinion, of course.

    After some thought, it would surely be nice if Dell offered both an ultrabook, for people like me, and a "portable server with a handle" type of laptop, for people with the kind of requirements that you have.
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  • Aug 8, 2012     Comment Link

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    Posted By: mwildam

    8 GB not enough. I have several virtual machines running for testing. Many of those by themselves (Windows 2008 + SQL Server + a bunch of other stuff I need to integrate my apps with) often want 8 GB. My current Dell Latitude E6530 (of coursse with Ubuntu on it) dedicates a minimum of 8 GB of my 16 GB to virtual machines. My IDE, browser, LibreOffice etc of course also wants a little memory.

    So please, put 16 GB memory in that machine!