Which Laptop to buy

[working.account]

Hello everyone,

I am purchasing a new laptop to handle my 9 gig filemaker DB. What is a good processor to get?

Does having mroe RAM increase productivity of filemaker?

Thanks!

[Ender]

FileMaker will run well on any new machine with a supported OS. The app itself doesn't require much RAM for client operations or for development.

[John May - Point In Space]

Don't buy something with Vista.

IMHO, get a Mac - they're so much more elegant than anything else out there, and the price/power ratio is quite competative with PCs these days. Plus Parallels/Boot Camp lets you run Windows if need be - no way to run OS X on a PC.

You can get a really good deal on a refurb right now from the Special Deals section of store.apple.com too.

- John

Edited March 20, 2007 by Guest

[Fitch]

For best FileMaker performance, generally HD > CPU > RAM. Not much you can do about a laptop HD, but even a "low-end" new laptop these days will run FileMaker just fine. You won't waste your money on a fast CPU, and then if you have the budget add some RAM. I'm partial to Macs for the reasons posted above.

[John May - Point In Space]

You can be sure to get at least a 5400rpm laptop drive, which I believe all Macs include these days. There are even some 7200rpms out now, though they result in smaller drive sizes it seems.

- John