I'd like to demo DNN for potential customers; my first thought was to install DNN on my laptop.  However I do have reservations about doing so, can anyone point me in the right direction.

If the impact isn't what I think then would it be feasible for me to do skin development on my laptop too?

Laptop Config:

Computer Model Latitude D600

BIOS Vendor Dell Computer Corporation

BIOS Version A12

BIOS Date 06-01-04

Windows Version Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Processor

Manufacturer Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz

Clock Speed 1.6GHz

L2 Cache Size 2048

Memory

Available Memory 75.54 %

Page File Size 0.6484Mb

Available Page File 36076 %

Virtual Memory 2047.8Mb

Available Virtual Memory 98.03 %

Memory Slot 1 [DIMM_A]  1024Mb

Memory Slot 2 [DIMM_B]  1024Mb

Network Card

Adapters Broadcom 570x Gigabit Integrated Controller - Packet Scheduler Miniport

Storage

Drive Type Drive Size Total Available Space Used Space

C: NTFS 74.52Gb 59.91Gb 14.61Gb

Hardware

Type Description

DVD/CD-ROM Drives HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8082N

Disk Drives FUJITSU MHT2080AT PL 74.52Gb

Display Adapters MOBILITY RADEON 9000 32Mb

IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers Intel(R) 82801DBM Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 24CA

 Primary IDE Channel

 Secondary IDE Channel

Keyboards USB Human Interface Device

 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard

Mice and Other Pointing Devices Logitech USB First/Pilot Mouse+

 HID-compliant mouse

 Alps Touch Pad

Monitors Default Monitor - (Standard monitor types)

Sound Devices SigmaTel C-Major Audio

USB Controllers Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C2

 Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C4

 Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C7

 Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 24CD

Software

Name Version

Microsoft Office Sounds 1.0.0.0

Barracuda Networks Outlook Plug-in 1.0.0.42

WebFldrs XP 9.50.7523

MetaFrame Presentation Server Client 9.200.44376

Broadcom Gigabit Integrated Controller 8.13.01

QuickBooks 16.0.4007.513

Kaspersky Network Agent 5.0.1151

Belkin Wireless Client Utility 1.0

Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional 7.0.8

Airgo Subsystem Software 1.00.0000

Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 11.0.7969.0

Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003 11.0.7969.0

Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 11.0.7969.0

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 11.0.7969.0

Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Workstations 5.0.676

Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 1.0.559.121

Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 1.1.4322

Thats a pretty powerful laptop, it will run dnn just fine (to give you an idea, I have a laptop with a worse processor and half that amount of Ram, and I do all my dotnetnuke development on it). You will need to install IIS (though it's possibly already on your machine as you're running XP Pro), and then install sql. If you do not want to purchase sql 2000/2005, then you can download either the free MSDE or SQL Express (I would recommend sql server express advanced with all the tools - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/download/ ) to use as the backend.

As for skin development, it'll be fine.

Cathal

I've read Shawn's blog about the Starter Kits; I'm not a developer, but do a lot of skin development and implementations on DNN.  I'm encouraged with Shawn and Michael Washington's posts and want to venture into more development.

Being that I'm new to development I was thinking of going the route of Shawns post and a lightweight install of Visual Web Developer, SQL Express and Cassini.  I have a MSDN subscription so my question is for comments or opinions of what would best fit my needs, I don't plan on really doing module development, but would like to learn.