Recommendations for Development System

Please describe an adequate development system for compiling and debugging nopCommerce on.  My present system is too slow to use for development.  I can compile the code, but for the iterative process of testing and development, it just doesn't cut it.  At present, I just haven't spent much time trying to modify the code because I need a faster system to make getting up to speed on MVC/Razor and C# in the .net environment practical.

I will be upgrading and need to spec out something that will run a copy of SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 10 reasonably.

At a minimum, please list:

CPU MAKE/MODEL
RAM CAPACITY
DRIVE TYPE / SPEED

Also, give approximate time to RUN nopCommerce in the VS2010 IDE using a single system for both VS10 and SQL.

Anything else you deem relevant.

TIA,

Steven...

My laptop seems fine for developing nopCommerce.  I'm running SQL Server directly on it.

CPU:  Intel Core i5-2520   2.5 GHz
RAM:  8GB
Not sure about my HD speed
Windows 7 64-bit

I'd say it takes 30-45 seconds to do a full solution rebuild.  If you're trying to cut that down the best piece you can get is a solid state hard drive.

My machine for development:
CPU:  Intel Core2 2 CPU E8400 @3.00GHz
RAM:  4GB
Windows 2003 Enterprise, SQL Server 2005 Enterprise, VS2010 (nothing more is installed)

It also takes about 30-40 seconds to rebuilt the solution

well I'd offer - quit trying to compile and use the install version - then use the system to learn MVC/Razor.  The NOP team has delivered a great platform to just explore the presentation layer.  Install the system, copy a theme to a new directory, update the theme settings and start playing with the theme/views.

A change to a view (razor) page doesn't require a recompile - if you add new views to your theme (copied from the default views) - it may take an ISS application restart - but not a recompile.

I do all my NOP development (plugins and themes) on a 4GB Win7 Laptop.  See the site I just launched @ http://www.inourgenes.com

I've changed CSS/themes and views no problem.  The things I'd like to do now require model/controller changes and compiling.  Thx.