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From: Mark Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 2:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Recommendations - Laptop for Virtualization 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 ~ 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
