Laptop suggestion with 16GB Ram

[Bunk]

A mobile-home lab eh?

I know what you're up to.

[filthy1980]

Bought a Gigabtye U2442-CF2 a couple months ago for around £800 from a US site, i bought the 8gb Ram 128 SSD version though you can upgrade & it's a good bit of hardware

[doodab]

CAn't you get as many cores on i5 as i7, just a bit slower?

quad core laptop chips are all i7s

Has Windows implemented functionality where running a Windows VM on Windows doesn't install the whole OS multiple times? I remember reading about such things but not if they are implemented or just a clever idea.

VMWare will allow you to clone the same base VM multiple times so only the differences are recorded. Useful when building say a windows network with DC + DB + app servers.

If you plan to use ESXi something to be aware of is the hardware compatibility list. You need to be sure whatever disk (most modern intel chipsets are fine) and particularly network chip the machine uses are supported as it's hard to change these things on a laptop.

[vetran]

CAn't you get as many cores on i5 as i7, just a bit slower?

I imagine for a multi-VM-fest, 128Gb is not going to cut it.

Has Windows implemented functionality where running a Windows VM on Windows doesn't install the whole OS multiple times? I remember reading about such things but not if they are implemented or just a clever idea.

Microsoft App-V - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

not sure they have cracked one base OS yet on windows.

[rurffy]

quad core laptop chips are all i7s



VMWare will allow you to clone the same base VM multiple times so only the differences are recorded. Useful when building say a windows network with DC + DB + app servers.

If you plan to use ESXi something to be aware of is the hardware compatibility list. You need to be sure whatever disk (most modern intel chipsets are fine) and particularly network chip the machine uses are supported as it's hard to change these things on a laptop.

My Main reason for the laptop is for Nested Virtual environment - that is : runining ESXI inside vmware workstation. I have that already runing on my shuttle XPC Workstation at home and it has 32GB Ram and 3T Hard disk. (Everything runs fine ) .

But i am always on the train going to customers site and all. It would be nice to have a Laptop were i could also run a smaller nested virtual environment .Hence i am looking for a 16gb.

I have done a little research and saw the below - however its 999 quid -

IdeaPad Y510p High-Performance 15.6" Multimedia Laptop from Lenovo| Lenovo (UK)

any one used the above?

[Kanye]

I'm interested in a similar spec but also with a very high resolution screen, 2560 (at least) as per Retina Macbook Pro. Does anyone know of any with such a screen?

[doodab]

I'm interested in a similar spec but also with a very high resolution screen, 2560 (at least) as per Retina Macbook Pro. Does anyone know of any with such a screen?

The latest lenovo W540 and T540 can be specced with 2880 x 1620 screens. They will set you back a bit though.

[kevpuk]

I'm interested in a similar spec but also with a very high resolution screen, 2560 (at least) as per Retina Macbook Pro. Does anyone know of any with such a screen?

To get that sort of screen, along with i7 and loadsa RAM, you might need to look at some of the high-end MSI (gaming) laptops.....

mighty beast

[suityou01]

HP ENVY 17-j053ea 17

899.

[vwdan]

I should probably go this route, but I just purchased a small job lot of 10k SAS disks