Laptop with VMs/Virtual PCs

[Boney M]

I use a HP Proliant Microserver, cost £100 and added memory and disks for another couple of hundred

[DallasDad]

Separate Tails VM for online Banking and other secure transactions

https://tails.boum.org/

[LondonManc]

I use a HP Proliant Microserver, cost £100 and added memory and disks for another couple of hundred

What base operating system do you use, Windows Server 20xx?

[suityou01]

I've been down this road and you end up spending a lot of cash and are often disappointed with the results.

I have specced and built a FO big gamers desktop, banged all my VMs on there and access them remotely over VPN.

If it's good enough for the big boys, it's good enough for me.

[zazou]

Current setup:
MacBook Pro 13 (early 2015), maxed out (i7, 1TB SSD, 16GB).

I run Windows 10 Pro on Parallels Desktop as a dev machine. Visual Studio + SQL Server Management Studio. 3 cores + about 6GB in memory allocated makes it more than reasonably quick.

Had a Sony Vaio Pro Touch 13 before but it just didn't cut the mustard having only 8GB of memory and 128GB SSD.

Verdict: I like it a lot, plenty of oomph from the i7 (5557U) and very portable. Happy with it as a dev machine for the side project. Occasionally I toy with the quad core big brother 15 inch but it's just too heavy and bulky.