Thanks for the Lenovo suggestion Bill. I always forget about Lenovo. Have had good luck with them in the past. Ending up buying a w520, quad-core with dual 500GB 7200RPM drives at RAID 0. Will replace with SSD's at a later date. Got a coupon code from Lenovo, so total incl. tax came to $1,650.Thanks everyone for your suggestions.
Mark On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Bill Humphries <[email protected]>wrote: > Thinkpad w520. quad core and also 4 DIMM slots. You can configure the > WWAN, etc at lenovo's website. Sign up for their shareholder purchase > program and get a bit more of a discount. You can use an ultrabay adapter > to replace DVD drive with a hard drive. > > Bill > > Mark Smith wrote: > >> Hi All, >> I need to purchase a laptop to run a virtualized test environment on. >> So it will need a CPU that supports VT of course. I'm thinking quad core >> would be best to handle the VM load. >> I'd like to have the option of running an SSD for the primary drive and a >> large SATA drive for storage. I'm having a hard time finding which laptops >> support 2 hard drives. >> It would be nice if it had mobile broadband (WWAN) support, so I could >> just pop a SIM card in it - I keep breaking my dongle ;) but I doubt I'll >> find a high powered laptop with that option. >> Any recommendations, opinions would be great. >> Thanks, >> Mark >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] <mailto: >> [email protected]> >> >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
