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A Virtual Solution for Mobile Development

Who needs a Dell when you can have a VirtualBox?

How long to get a new Dell?!

In my last column, I shared the news that my Dell Latitude simply gave up on me.

Thank you to the one reader who suggested that I could recover things by booting Linux from CD — I would have gladly tried that if the machine would have even POST-ed. She was just dead.

No problem, my company is a Dell reseller — we’ll just get another one here pronto and I can move my data over, re-install my compilers and get back to work, right?

Wrong. Delivery date was weeks out and I had work to do. Being tied to a desktop computer just didn’t feel right. I looked at some of the “retail” laptops at Staples but couldn’t bring myself to purchase 1/2 a laptop at 2/3 the price of a “real” machine — like the one I already had on…

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