Re: Looking for Laptop Recommendations

2011-12-31 Thread Stephen
Something to look at also might be XenClient, So with an Intel chil that supports vtxd and vt you can have windows and linux side by side. I have used it and it realy is possibly the coolest VM implementation i have yet to use. To sum up you have a bare metal hypervisor. but you still have graphic

Re: Looking for Laptop Recommendations

2011-12-31 Thread Ed
Suggested: 4 Gig of RAM is best, if you go with a notebook make sure the ATOM chip will do hardware virtualization[1]. I mention a notebook because long battery life and small size will be appreciated by your daughter. and it is more likely to survive than a full size laptop. don't worry about proc

Re: Looking for Laptop Recommendations

2011-12-31 Thread Stephen
I jsut got a Dell D620 Core Duo 2.0 ghx laptop. had some spare ram and hdd got the thing for less than 100 then had to spend about 8 on a new power supply and 3 on a hdd caddy. but they are champs and it was a little scuffed up, wich worked out becuase i was able to clena all of it out with a littl

Re: Looking for Laptop Recommendations

2011-12-31 Thread Dazed_75
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 09:43:19AM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: > > I would think she should have at least 2 GB memory for that so the VM > could > > have 1 GB. I'd also like to see at least a core 2 duo for better > > virtualization support a

Re: Looking for Laptop Recommendations

2011-12-31 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 09:43:19AM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: > I would think she should have at least 2 GB memory for that so the VM could > have 1 GB. I'd also like to see at least a core 2 duo for better > virtualization support and reduced power needs. > > I happened to be at ASU Surplus (SE corn

Re: Looking for Laptop Recommendations

2011-12-31 Thread Dazed_75
I would think she should have at least 2 GB memory for that so the VM could have 1 GB. I'd also like to see at least a core 2 duo for better virtualization support and reduced power needs. I happened to be at ASU Surplus (SE corner of 101 and Rio Salato) the other day. I was not looking for a la

Looking for Laptop Recommendations

2011-12-31 Thread Mark Phillips
My daughter needs a "new" laptop for high school. It needs to run Debian or Ubunrtu and have enough horsepower to run Windows XP in VMware Player for iTunes. A refurbished machine is OK. I am mostly interested in what you would recommend as minimum hardware specs (processor 7 RAM) for this configur