Laptop for Sharepoint Developemnt
- Hai All,I am planning to buy a laptop in order to work with sharepoint ,which brand of laptop would be better for development purpose.I have an option in my mind sony Vaio SR series(Configuration:8 GB Ram, 500GB HDD,3.06 Ghz max CPU,6.5 hrs max battery,4.4 lbs,13 inch screen).please suggest me whether i can go for this laptop or not or suggest me one(Laptop) with good configuration for sharepoint development purpose.Regards,Arun.R
- 已移動Mike Walsh MVPMVP, 版主Tuesday, 24 November, 2009 6:33General q not programming (From:SharePoint - Development and Programming)
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- 1) There is lots of great info on SharePoint development here: http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com, including a post on Building a SharePoint Development Environment: http://sharepointdevwiki.com/display/public/Building+a+SharePoint+Development+Environment
2) It sounds like the Sony would do the trick, but it really depends on what you're going to be doing. Definitely take a look at the system requirements and get an idea of how you are going to be developing (with a virtual machine or with SharePoint installed locally)- 已標示為解答Lambert QinMSFT, 版主Tuesday, 1 December, 2009 7:00
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It really depends on what kind of development you're planning to do. Some key questions:
- Are you going to be working with the current version of SharePoint or the 2010 Beta?
- WSS/Foundation or MOSS/Server?
- Are you planning to Virtualize SharePoint on the machine or run it locally?
- Are you planning to run with a Server OS or a Client OS?
As a reference, I am running my development environment on a laptop with 8GB of RAM running Windows 7 Ultimate with SharePoint Server 2010 Beta 2 and it runs great!
- i prefer to develop sharepoint from powerful servers as a laptop cant really emulate my environment of having n-tier architectures and ad etc..
if your sharepoint is going to be a small scale app, why not :)
Never stop learning. - Thanks Raymond.I am new to sharepoint development please suggest me on this
1)give me your suggestion on how to start, my sharepoint development stuff.
2) suggest me whether i can go for sony vaio SR series with above mentioned configuration or I should choose some other brand.Regards,Arun.R - hi,
for learning purpose installiing sharepoint on laptop is decent idea.
and sharepoint system requirements u can get it from net.
also not that MOSS 2010 is getting launched which requires higher sysetm config.
the config u mentioned looks gr8 to me. u can buy the same. but do check moss 2010 system requirements before buying the laptop if ur planning to install the same.
ullasjoshi - 1) There is lots of great info on SharePoint development here: http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com, including a post on Building a SharePoint Development Environment: http://sharepointdevwiki.com/display/public/Building+a+SharePoint+Development+Environment
2) It sounds like the Sony would do the trick, but it really depends on what you're going to be doing. Definitely take a look at the system requirements and get an idea of how you are going to be developing (with a virtual machine or with SharePoint installed locally)- 已標示為解答Lambert QinMSFT, 版主Tuesday, 1 December, 2009 7:00
- Thanks Raymond,I bought a Sony laptop with this config(4 GB Ram,Intel Pentium(R) Dual Core CPU T4300 @2.10 Ghz,320 GB HDD,windows 7 home premium).The problem with this laptop is it doesn't support intel virtualization.Please guide me what i should do in order to learn sharepoint.what would be the alternative to use this laptop for sharepoint development.This is for my personal practice in order to get hang of sharepoint development stuffs.
I would suggest installing the SharePoint 2010 beta on your machine since you don't have the RAM or virtualization support to build a very powerful virtual dev environment.
You stated that you have Home Premium. Though I haven't tested it myself, it sounds like it *should* work for installing SharePoing 2010: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010general/thread/ef5e33f9-d08c-46e5-9770-564382e07334
Here are the steps for installing the beta on your environment: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx
You may also want to take a look at this link for more beta notes: http://blogs.msdn.com/opal/archive/2009/11/16/installation-notice-for-sharepoint-2010-public-beta.aspx
As far as where to get started, I would highly recommend you start by familiarizing yourself with the SharePoint Object Model: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee557253(office.14).aspx The object model is used in many SharePoint development efforts from Web Parts to Workflows.
Keep in mind that since this is beta software, there is a good chance you will need to rebuild your machine in the near future. If you're not comfortable with that, you may want to consider other options.- Thanx Raymond.I am so confused.if i have a windows server 2008 installed in my laptop which has the above mentioned configuration will that solve my purpose.Regards,Arun.R
You still haven't really told us what your purpose is:
- Are you going to be working with the current version of SharePoint or the 2010 Beta?
- WSS/Foundation or MOSS/Server?
If you are using the new version of SharePoint, you wouldn't need to install Windows Server 2008.
- Thanx Raymond.I am so naive.I don't know how to begin since I am new to sharepoint development, at the same time my laptop doesn't support virtualization.kindly please suggest me how i can make use of this laptop for sharepoint development.The core idea behind this is to learn sharepoint.Please GUIDE me.The reason why i asked "whether i can go for windows server 2008" to get rid of this conflicts and also contemplating about sharepoint 2010 and I was in assumption that i dont need to go for VPC,Virtual server and so on since my laptop doesn't support virtualization.I am so confused.Regards,Arun.R
- I have a ThinkPad I use for SP development. It's been great. I have a T61p, which is about a year old, but the current version of that line is a T500. The nice thing about this machine is that you can remove the optical drive and add a second HDD for a dedicated VM drive. Also, I loaded it down with 8GB of RAM which is important for SP development. The other key thing is that the ThinkPad's have a docking station which allows me to use two external displays when I am docked.
Daniel Segan Arun,
I think you have two core options:
1) Work with SharePoint hosted in a virtual environment
2) Work with SharePoint installed locally
Based on the 4GB of RAM and your lack of advanced virtualization support, I think I would go with option 2, and install SharePoint locally. Now that you're installing locally, you have two more options:
2.1) Stay with Windows 7
2.2) Install Windows Server
This really depends on what you want to do. If you want to get familar with SharePoint Administration, I'd definitely recommend 2.2. If you just want to get familiar with SharePoint Development, I'd go with 2.1.
If you are going with option 2.1, you can install the SharePoint 2010 beta on your Windows 7 machine (without virtualization). Check out the links in my previous post for instructions on how to set up your development environment.
Hope that helps!- Thanks Raymond for your extended help.I will stick to your advise.I have few more things to be clarified.
1)why are we going for virtual environment.if this(virtual environment) is the case what are the things that i need to install Sequentially so that i will not end up in a mess2)why it cant be done in a normal environment3)if i have a windows server then what are the things that i need to install Sequentially so that i will not end up in a mess.Answers for these question will help me to learn sharepoint in a better way, though it looks so absurd.I can also help others who are so naive like me.Regards,Arun
