When I first heard about hardware for Visual Studio 2005 I was told 1GB minimum. After I've played with it, I'd say get at least 2GB.

Any model would probably do but make sure you get at least 2GB of RAM, a nice size hard drive (pretty common now) and a decent processor, whatever is "common" now (what is it like 3GHz?) I guess would do. If you could get a video card with some RAM on it that would be nice too since so you will not have to share the system RAM.

Aloha,

James

>Hi all,
>
>It looks like I'll be jumping into the VS.NET 2005 and SQL Server 2005 bandwagon in matter of weeks.
>I'll be doing pretty serious ASP.NET development < g > querying enterprise SQL Server 2000 databases and developing new SQL Server 2005 ones for Digital Dashboards using SharePoint Services and ASP.NET 2.0.
>It's quite possible that I'll need Virtual PC and/or Virtual Server for research and testing purposes.
>
>What are the recommended (not minimal) laptop specs for handling these new software monsters with aplomb? In my company we are "married" with Dell, any experiences in the forum with their computers?
>
>TIA