I'll be picking up my new laptop today. Nothing fancy, but a good solid (I hope) Dell Latitude 531 for under $1k. I'm excited but very aware that there's a lot of work to be done before I can use it productively, for software development. One of my co-workers has been having a helluva time getting the .NET Framework installed correctly (through all versions, with all the extensions, etc.). My desktop machine has everything I need on it, but I've been adding versions and tools to it steadily over the years. Haven't started from scratch in a while. Once I'm done getting her all filled up with developer goodness, I'll be more mobile and able to do collaboration with geographically disperse development teams (i.e., work from home but be able to do face-to-face as needed).
And it'll be cool having a laptop again ;-) w00t!!1!!
Posted by buggy at May 21, 2008 12:37 PM