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. Brgds, Lobna Gouda
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:13:09 -0800 From: blakangel@gmail.com To: 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] 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