Re: OT: laptop recommendations to run Virtual Box vms'

I bought a gaming laptop from a company called Xidax recently to run my VM's on. Its a very nice, powerful laptop with 64G RAM. Expensive, but worth the money.

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Alfredo Abate <alfredo.abate_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I would say 8gb is the minimum you want to get for playing around with
> Virtual Box but if you decide to do something like RAC, where you would
> start up multiple VMs, it's definitely nice to have more memory.
>
> I went with 16gb on my company issued Dell for the purpose of using
> Virtual Box and knowing I would be doing RAC on it. If you can get more
> than 8gb you'll be thankful later for the extra headroom.
>
> Alfredo
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Jeff Chirco <backseatdba_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey looking for opinions, I am working on getting a new laptop from
>> work, my primary workstation is a desktop so the laptops are mostly a dumb
>> terminal to just remote desktop from. But I would like to use this laptop
>> as a sandbox and install Virtual Box and host a some VM’s with Oracle
>> database and EM to play with. I have not really done any work with
>> Virtual Box so I am just wondering if 8gb of RAM is good enough or should I
>> try to get 16gb. And I will try to get 256gb SSD.
>>
>> Anybody have recommendations. Our company typically buys Dell
>> Latitude’s but I am looking at the Yoga 900.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>
>

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