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Planning to buy a laptop(reasonable budget). I want to know the basic requirement to run VS2010 and SQL Server 2008 smoothly with Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Dreamweaver CS4 in Windows 7 Home. Can Pentium Processor do the job? If not please Suggest me. Thank you.

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This question is probably better suited to superuser.com – Dereleased Mar 20 '10 at 6:53
Also, if I may recommend, define "reasonable" budget (for what you describe, maybe I think $2,000 is reasonable, while you're thinking under $1,200? Worth stating), as well as other features that are important to you, and how they affect tradeoffs - e.g., screen size, battery life, presence of a numpad, and so on. – Dereleased Mar 20 '10 at 6:55
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You will find it difficult to buy a brand new laptop that runs these programs badly, even towards the very cheap end of the market (avoid netbooks though)

I'd recommend a minimum of 2GB of RAM and 150GB hard drive. A single core processor will be ok, but go for pentium rather than centrino/atom.

If you have enough budget, try to get double that (dual core, 4GB, 300GB).

But the most important things: Get as large a screen resolution as possible, or you'll find it very "cramped". Try out the keyboard - many laptops have terrible keyboard layouts, so make sure you're comfortable using it.

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External screen and keyboard will be required for any sustained kind of development. – harrymc Mar 20 '10 at 9:52
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More information on how to choose the right hardware for Visual Studio 2010 can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2010/sysreqs Computer with a 1.6GHz or faster processor 1024 MB RAM (1.5 GB if running in a virtual machine) 3 GB of available hard-disk space 5400 RPM hard drive DirectX 9 capable video card running at 1024 x 768 or higher-resolution display DVD-ROM Drive

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