If you develop on that bleeding edge, how will you know how your apps work on the target machines?
No developer I know has more than 16GB and they do great things.
Hi,
I'm planning to buy a new high performance laptop with a latest Skylake/Mobile Xeon Quad core processor. Primarily I would be using this for installing and running few software applications for learning and upgrading my knowledge. I would be using trials of below Databases and tools :
1)Database:
a)Oracle (12c),
b)PostgreSQL,
c)SQL server
Would be using for OLTP as well Data Warehouse databases (Though not going to have lot of data)
2) ETL Tools
a)Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB)
b) any other ETL like Informatica, SSIS
3)Reporting Tool
a) Oracle Discoverer
b) Cognos
3)Designer tools
a) CA Erwin data modeler
b) ER studio
3) Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler
4) Other Dev tools
a) PL/SQL developer
b) Toad
c) SQL developer
I could be running few of these at a given time. For instance I might be running all three databases(Oracle, SQL server, Postgres) along with OWB, Discoverer and Toad. I'm kinda in dilemma in choosing the RAM size. I'm thinking whether to get a laptop with RAM sizes of 16 GB, 32 GB or 64 GB. I guess atleast 16 GB is OK, 32 will be better and 64 could be either great or overkill. This is notgoing to be a production system, just would be using to upgrade my skills and knowledge. Could you guys suggest me a optimal RAM size?
I prefer Toshiba, but they are yet to refresh the models with Quadcore Skylake. Current Toshiba Satellite laptops have a max of 16 GB DDR3L memory. They do have a Tecra business laptop with 32 GB DDR3L RAM and Haswell Quadcore processor, which I'm not preferring much.
However I've seen that Lenovo is coming up with P50 & P70 thinkpads withthe new MobileXeon processor from Intel with 64 GB DDR4L RAM. Though pricing is not known now, these should be coming next month.
Many thanks in advance
Shasun

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