Anybody using the X40 for serious development?

[mattc58]

I'm looking at the X40 and T42 as a replacement for my Dell Latitude. I do quite a bit of development on my machine using Visual Studio .NET, SQL Server, BizTalk, portals, etc.

I've enjoyed the power of the Latitude but I'd love to have something more portable. A colleague has been using the X40 and loves it.

Is anybody doing this much development on an X40 successfully? I don't really worry about the screen resolution as much as I do the slow hard drive and processor. I'll bump it up to 1G memory at a minimum, but that hard drive has me worried.

On the flip side, is the T42 any more portable than my Latitude? That thing is a brick, really impossible to use on a plane in coach.

[jdhurst]

I have a T41 with a 14 inch screen, so it is a bit smaller than the 15 inch T machines. It is also light. So I think it would work in a plane in coach - someone else would have to say. The reason I mention the T41 is partly because it is a decent size, and mostly because it *will* take the 7200 rpm hard drives. I will not step down from this faster speed - it is just simply very fast. I think your concern is well founded, and try to get a machine with the fast drive. ... JDHurst

[akeskira]

I have a T41 with a 14 inch screen, so it is a bit smaller than the 15 inch T machines. It is also light. So I think it would work in a plane in coach - someone else would have to say. The reason I mention the T41 is partly because it is a decent size, and mostly because it *will* take the 7200 rpm hard drives. I will not step down from this faster speed - it is just simply very fast. I think your concern is well founded, and try to get a machine with the fast drive. ... JDHurst

I have an X30 that I use during biz trips. I fly some 100,000 miles a year, and for most time X30 is small enough to be used in coach, but sometimes when the person in front of me reclines I have tough time to keep the display open. T definitely would be too big in those situations.

In our company all developers have X30s, and none of them have complained its speed or resolution. Some of them use port replicator with bigger screens, some of them don't. Our platform is unix based, so the X30 seems to be a glorified terminal for them; i.e. the actual development being done in Solaris shell over ssh.

My 2c,

Antti

[iansir]

Get an X31 and add in a 7200 rpm drive (might have to do this yourself, but it will fit). I have one now, 1.7 Ghz 768 mb ram and it runs very nicely. Should be more than adequate for development. Slightly larger than X40, but should be much faster with faster processor and hard drive. I see the 1.8in drive on the X40 a major setback for performance and upgrades. I'm actually going to be selling my X31 on the forum in a few days (replacing w/ T42)

[mattc58]

Somebody please tell me good news. I want that X40 and I want everything to be ok.