Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations

12 Nov 2014

      On 11/12/2014 01:59 PM, Bacon Zombie wrote:

Bacon and Zombies, 2 of my favorite things !!!
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I'd say 60% of laptops at security conferences I've been to are 
Lenovo, 30% Apple and 10% Dell/other.
Not advocating either way just bringing up the nugget of info that I'm 
aware of.

--John
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On 12 Nov 2014 20:35, "John Schiel" <jschiel@flowtools.net 
<mailto:jschiel@flowtools.net>> wrote:
On 11/11/2014 05:54 PM, lobna gouda wrote:
Thanks all for your reply, lenovo seems decent almost all the
        pc ( lenovo and hp) are decent with the 16G.somebody mentioned
        with 16g it is a bit slow; Keith here is saying the 32G he had
        no issue. i intend to buy my own memory just to save on the
        costi agree 64 will be sky expensive and cloud will do,
        then.By the way W530 is replaced by W540, donot see much
        benefit for my case.
Be careful with Lenovo, some folks think it has a bad security
    reputation. Why? *shrug*, not sure but maybe because it's a
    Chinese company with ties to the PRC and IIRC, there was a BIOS flaw.
--John
Brgds,
        Lobna Gouda
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:13:09 -0800
            From: blakangel@gmail.com <mailto:blakangel@gmail.com>
            To: nanog@nanog.org <mailto:nanog@nanog.org>
            Subject: Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations
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...
--p
-----Original Message-----
                From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org
                <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
                <mailto: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