I have an almost two-year old Lenovo W530 with 32G ram. I've been happy with it. I don't find myself taking advantage of the ram (w/ VMWare Workstation) as much as I thought I would. http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/w530/ -Keith Darden, Patrick wrote:
If there is a cheap quad-core laptop with 64GB of ram and no huge downsides... then sign me up! I expect that will be the standard in 5 years, but right now that is a hoss.
Izaac's suggestion of using the cloud is good, if you can do it. Cloud services have come a long way--fast and easy to set up complex environments. Great article comparing performance and costs:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2610403/cloud-computing/ultimate-cloud-spee...
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-----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Izaac Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 6:25 PM To: NANOG Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations
On November 10, 2014 4:49:08 PM EST, lobna gouda <lobna_gouda@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hello, Any recommendation, not looking for anything fantasy, my understanding it should be quardcore, with more than DIMM0 slot so each can have 8G. wind7-64bits to work. I want to use it as a server or practice logical routers
"Cheap" and "64GiB of RAM" are incompatible concepts in laptops.
There is no earthly reason you should need to carry a machine like that anyway. If for some reason you need something so equipped, get yourself a cloud instance and connect to it. That's how you save money.
If you're stuck working in a completely isolated environment, then work it into the contract. That's the cost of being on an island.
-- Izaac