Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/21/2016)

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manie (10/21/2016)

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Hi Steve,

What I really would like to spend money on is a laptop with lots of disk space and lots of memory. You know I like to have some dev tools as well as some VMs where I can install different versions of SQL Server. I basically just want to be able to install a lot of stuff (mostly work related) on my laptop. You know, when you guys were running that DBA Team stories (I loved it) one of the ladies had a laptop with 32 gb memory. I think she called it "abomination". That is my fantasy, call it what you want, but that is it.

You got me to stop and double take briefly. A memory flashed of a university CS software engineering prof who bragged of his SunOS, 32MB desktop that all of us drooling because most of us at 4MB or less. At the time, 4MB would have cost me about US$500.

I briefly had a Lenovo W340 or something like that which had 2 drive bays and could have gone to 32MB. Too large and heavy. Moved to smaller ones. I like the idea of 16GB now becoming mainstream, though I may get an Intel NUC with 16-32GB and build a lab I can carry around.