I do all my work on a laptop.
Hardware
- Apple MacBook Pro 15" Early 2011, 8GB RAM, Core i7 2.3GHz (MacBookPro8,2)
- Storage: 750GB hdd, plus 240GB OCZ Vertex 3 MI (note: removed optical media drive)
- Apple magic mouse <- I hate this thing
- External monitors/keyboards available depending on client site(s)
Software
- Windows 7 (soon Windows 8)
- Visual Studio 2010 / 2012
- Office 2010
- ReSharper 7
- p4Merge + Kdiff3
- Git: msysgit (w/ bash), git-tfs, Github for windows + GitExtensions
- Sublime Text 2, Notepad2, Notepad++
- Browsers: Chrome, Firefox, IE9 (in that order)
- Fiddler2
- Linqpad4
- Redgate: SQL Compare, Data Compare, Reflector
- Utils: Sysinternals, ILSpy, Windirstat (pesky small SSD)
- CloudSync: iCloud, Dropbox, SkyDrive, Windows Live Mesh
- Remote Access: JumpDesktop + Splashtop (access from iPhone/iPad)
- Windows Live Family Safety (keep an eye on the kids)
- IIS7/8
- IISNode + NodeJS
- Mac OS X Mountain Lion
- Mac: Mail, Calendar, Contacts, etc (iCloud-sync'd to everywhere else)
- VMWare Fusion + Parallels Desktop 7 (running my windows Bootcap installation without rebooting)
- Reeder - Google Reader Client
- Sublime Text 2
- Terminal/Bash/Homebrew + all the common unix-y command line tools
- Browsers: Chrome, Safari, Firefox (in that order)
- iTunes (only when I have to, not often in the new iCloud era)
- Misc games from Steam + Mac App Store
- Growl, Messages, Twitter, etc
- Media Sharing: Plex + AirVideo (transcode/share media to mobile devices)
- NodeJS and related