| As far as heat goes, you'll find that using lots of CPU creates heat, and VMWare will not use more CPU than you need, so in that respect it's just like any other application. The RAM question is more difficult. I use a Ubuntu server VMWare image which exactly matches my Slicehost server. In other words, you may want to try and match your target environment. If you don't need to do Swing development, you'll be in great shape.
I don't usually do hardcore coding in VMWare. I have a Linux workstation and my Macs for that. Since you can get a quad core PC at around $1000 US it's never been cheaper to set up a really great Linux workstation.
- Tim On Apr 20, 2008, at 7:34 AM, cw wrote: may i know how many gb of rams u are using for the guest os? how frequent do u need to restart the guest os? and how long u have been using guest os for development? does vmware heat up the laptop..? ----- Original Message ---- From: Dmitry Markman < email@hidden> To: cw < email@hidden> Cc: email@hiddenSent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 8:22:33 PM Subject: Re: looking for laptop to do java development can't say about ubuntu but VMWare with WindowsXP or with debian 4 (x86_64) are very stable
On Apr 20, 2008, at 8:15 AM, cw wrote: I undecisive between choosing just simple dell xps or get a macbook pro , install vmware fusion and have a guest ubuntu OS on it. The reason i need a loptop is just purely for java development. I wonder anyone of u using leopard and using using vmware fusion with guest ubuntu OS for java development? I worry about the stability of the operating system by running vmware all the time and wonder does that likely to crash likely? i'm already fed up with vista frequent, program crashing and "prompting finfing solutions"... looking forward from guru feedback... should i just get a dell or macbook pro?
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