Greetings, On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:04 PM, narendra sisodiya <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am planning to buy a new laptop. > a) Do anybody have idea which laptop will be suitable for such task, > Like high processing > shows {Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x) == No} . is it the > same vmx flag ?? because I have a netbook with ATOM z520 > http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=35472&processor=Z500&spec-codes=SLB6Q > which shows a vmx flag. but in the above link, it show it do not have > {Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x) }
ensure that the virtualization is enabled in CMOS. > c) buying a laptop, with Graphics card with 1GB/512MB memory, How does > it help in performance. Only for heavy duty graphics such as gaming/visualization and the such. Instead spend on system RAM as much as you can afford. _That_ helps a lot in virtualization. > f) Intel core i3 series is 64 bit. So I can think for AMD too. in AMD > i think we have Turion 64 X2. any comment how this will change > performance. > while answering, Please keep in mind that I only use gnu/Linux OS. AFAIK, core 2 can do 64 bit. As early as 2007 I had fedora 7 and centos 5 (both x86_64) installed on couple of desktops. HTH Regards, Rajagopal _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
