I am going to have to do this , the annoyance is I just spent the weekend installing my IDE and DBs = ( The amount of time I have spent setting up the machine, over two days, if I count it as "work time" which I won't, would add up to approximately half the price of the laptop itself.
This is a good advertisement for Puppet as a configuration engine. Set up a box, get it talking to the puppetmaster, tell the puppetmaster you've got a dev box (which implies all that IDE and DB stuff) sit back and wait and it just works.
