On Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 20:05 Michael Galea via talk, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All, > > My son is off to university for CS this fall, and will need a laptop. > I'm looking at purchasing one for him, so he can run Windows and Linux. > I'm figuring on going the VM route. > > He can use both OS's but is probably more familiar with Win, and his > courses mandate a number of windows only tools. I'm heading in the > direction of booting Win10 and using a VM running Debian. > > A bit of research indicates that the two most popular free VM contenders > are VMware and Microsoft's Hyper-V. Can anyone recommend one over the > other? Are there better choices? > > As per laptop specs, I am figuring on getting something with a late > model Intel i7, 32 GB RAM, and 1-2TB storage. I figure many laptops must > meet this spec. Is there anything else I should be looking for? > Some Lenovos have a 2nd graphics card in addition to the one on the chip. Some time ago, some body posted to the internet a video of a game being played on a Windows guest on Linux. The machine in question had VT-d and a second graphics card and a second monitor. VT-d allowed the guest OS to have direct access to the 2nd graphics card. Today I don't know what the performance would be with Meltdown/Spectre mitigations in both the host OS and the guest OS. >
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