Re: OT: laptop recommendations to run Virtual Box vms'
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:28:40 +1100
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Multiple hard drives are standard in some laptops as well and may be worth
while looking at...
Mine had a single drive and I swapped out the the DVD drive for another
hard drive.
Jack van Zanen
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Mark J. Bobak <mark_at_bobak.net> wrote:
> It comes down to budget. As others have said, for multiple VMs, 16GB
> minimum. On the high end, you could go as crazy as 64GB, and up to 2TB of
> SSD. Of course, through high end could be north of USD $5k, which may be
> more than your IT department is willing to cover.
>
> I priced out a ThinkPad p70, 17.3" 4k display, XEON CPUs, 64GB, and 2TB of
> SSD is probably the most that money can buy (that I'm aware of). It is
> also worth looking at if you go with 1080p display, NON-XEON CPUs, 16GB
> and a 1/2TB SSD, it'd be closer to $2k, and you still have a laptop that's
> upgradeable to 64GB in the future.
>
> -Mark
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 16:27 Gmail <jacques.kostic_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Try eurocom...
>> Jko
>>
>> On 24 October 2016 21:23:12 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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