Best Notebook for Java Development

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I am considering buying a new laptop for Java/J2EE development. I would like to stay away from Dell or Acer. I am roughly thinking of MackBook Pro or IBM Thinkpad.
I would appreciate any suggestions. What do you guys use as development box? What do you recommend?

devilwithin999

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The best is Dell as it has a very high performance as well as its customer support is excellent.

So, go for as DELL as you also need customer support if your system fails. I have a Dell XPS M1730 and its awesome and works very fast and good without a glitch.

whois

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It doesn't really matter,

EightOtwo

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syanjali

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Thinkpad is the best, go for it.

HowardRoark

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Thank you all.
devilwithin999, Dell has a pathetic customer service. And the quality of dell notebooks have gone down the hill, esp with their Inspiron series.
Anyone using Mackbook Pro?

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It depends on what IDE you want to use for your dev work. My first J2EE project (several years ago) was entirely based on command-line tools that came with the JDK. That took very little system resources (300MHz processor and 128MB RAM were plenty). If you're comfortable with the command-line, you won't need a fancy machine at all.

But there are several IDEs that make the Java/J2EE dev work easier. Some of them (such as Eclipse) are very versatile, but demand a lot of your system resources. (Eclipse will probably need a 2GHz processor, 2GB RAM to function optimally). Others such as Borland JBuilder are less hogging... I don't do full time Java anymore, but whenever I have to, I now use Sun's NetBeans IDE on a box with 2GHz process and 1GB of RAM... Works great.

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