Time for an upgrade

[doodab]

Monster solid state drives yesterday, 16 GB RAM today, 32 GB tomorrow. What you doing then?

Really really boring stuff, but it often involves a couple of largeish VMs at once.

The main reason I've gone for the 512GB SSD is because it's the cheapest per GB and I've already outgrown two smaller ones. I'm hoping this one will last me a bit longer.

[TheFaQQer]

Did anyone try pcspecialist?
I got a quote of around £2200 for that kind of spec (Intel i7/16G RAM/256G SSD HD) from pcspecialist..
Haven't made up my mind yet.

Not had a laptop from them, but my current desktop machine is from there, and I'm very pleased with it.

[Spacecadet]

Really really boring stuff, but it often involves a couple of largeish VMs at once.

Which is why I'd recommend the Dell. The 2 hard drive configuration means you can have your OS on the mini PCI card and the VMs on the regular drive. A 3rd drive means even less contention

[chef]

You could become an iClone and go for a macbook...

No I can't, they max out at 8GB.

Not quite true. The 2011 Macbook Pro's support 16Gb RAM
Money to Spare? Juice Up Your New MacBook Pro to 16GB of RAM | Mac|Life

and if you want you can also add a 2nd SSD
info here and here

[doodab]

Not quite true. The 2011 Macbook Pro's support 16Gb RAM
Money to Spare? Juice Up Your New MacBook Pro to 16GB of RAM | Mac|Life

and if you want you can also add a 2nd SSD
info here and here

My new thinkpad will have 32GB. Should be good for at least the next two versions

[Support Monkey]

Dell everytime if your going windows, seen to many lenovo fail for my liking, there covered in to much lenovo software, they might be ok for single use but in a corporate environment there a pain in the ar5e they have a strange partition setup with the boot sector spread across multiple partitions that causes all sorts of problems when imaging