Hanselminutes on 9 - Inside Secret Microsoft Meeting Rooms - What Laptop do Alpha Geeks Use?

Posted By: Glucose | Jul 7th @ 1:11 PM | 60,014 Views | 36 Comments
I'm up in Redmond visiting for a few days this week and I'm in a super-secret meeting in an undisclosed location (Well, actually it's Studio C in the 3408 conference room, but still, what can you do with that?) and during a break I noticed how everyone had a different laptop. Here's 6 short minutes on who's running what. You might recognize a few familiar faces.
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#Jul 7th @ 1:56 PM
CRPietschmann
CRPietschmann
Chris Pietschmann

Nice, and mildly amusing. That's quite the variety of laptops.

If we only knew what files Phil accidentally deleted when he cleared his recycle bin. Perhaps some new awesomeness for ASP.NET MVC is now lost forever.  Smiley

I'm No alpha geek, but I'm sporting a SONY VAIO VGN-FW290 with 4GB RAM and a 2.26Ghz Core 2 Duo. And, Yes I have access to all 4GB of RAM (unlike Phil) with Win7 RC x64. The only thing I don't like about this laptop is that Sony permenently disables hardware assisted virtualization on all their Vaio laptops; I didn't know this when I bought it and NewEgg wouldn't accept a return. They didn't believe me that the laptop was malfunctioning.

#Jul 7th @ 2:20 PM
cjibo
cjibo
Curtis Gibeaut (Jibo) Jr.

Maybe he deleted the source for Vista along with ME. 

I sport a HP NC8430 2.4 Intel Dual Core with 4GB Ram, Macbook Unibody 2.4 with 4 GB Ram + 7200 RPM 500 GB Drive, and a HP TouchSmart tx2 with AMD Turion x2 64 with 4 GB Ram (Multi-touch) woot.  I have a broken back by the way due to carrying all three in my backpack on occassion.  I need a new one that supports 8 GB now.

#Jul 7th @ 2:26 PM
Duncanma
Duncanma
Just Coding for Fun...

You might notice our own @HumanCompiler in there as well...

#Jul 7th @ 2:28 PM
SProst
SProst

Awesome collection of laptops. I'm running a Lenovo Ideapad Y550 with 4GB of DDR3 @1066MHz. P8700 @ 2.53GHz (with the 1066MHz FSB), 320GB 7200 RPM Western Digital hard drive.Cool Running Win 7 RC x64.

#Jul 7th @ 3:26 PM
ChrisStepaniuk
ChrisStepaniuk

Yes, and one guy was even brave enough to leave Visual Studio maximized....

Scott you are awesome, love it when you taunt your co-workers!

#Jul 7th @ 3:26 PM
HumanCompiler
HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code

The content on my laptop in that video is no secret.  Smiley

#Jul 7th @ 5:25 PM
TobinT
TobinT
Stay Classy, San Diego

Awwww, I know what the meeting is about! Erik's presence, along with the others involved gives it away!

#Jul 7th @ 10:37 PM
Larry Osterman
Larry Osterman

Wow.  I'd love to have the crappiest of those laptops.

 

Mine's a Toshiba A100 with 1G of RAM and a 60G hard disk.

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