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Laptop with VMs/Virtual PCs

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    #21
    I use a HP Proliant Microserver, cost £100 and added memory and disks for another couple of hundred

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      #22
      Separate Tails VM for online Banking and other secure transactions

      https://tails.boum.org/
      So now I am worried, am I being deceived, just how much sugar is really in a spoon full!

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        #23
        Originally posted by Boney M View Post
        I use a HP Proliant Microserver, cost £100 and added memory and disks for another couple of hundred
        What base operating system do you use, Windows Server 20xx?
        The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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          #24
          I've been down this road and you end up spending a lot of cash and are often disappointed with the results.

          I have specced and built a FO big gamers desktop, banged all my VMs on there and access them remotely over VPN.

          If it's good enough for the big boys, it's good enough for me.
          Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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            #25
            Current setup:
            MacBook Pro 13 (early 2015), maxed out (i7, 1TB SSD, 16GB).

            I run Windows 10 Pro on Parallels Desktop as a dev machine. Visual Studio + SQL Server Management Studio. 3 cores + about 6GB in memory allocated makes it more than reasonably quick.

            Had a Sony Vaio Pro Touch 13 before but it just didn't cut the mustard having only 8GB of memory and 128GB SSD.

            Verdict: I like it a lot, plenty of oomph from the i7 (5557U) and very portable. Happy with it as a dev machine for the side project. Occasionally I toy with the quad core big brother 15 inch but it's just too heavy and bulky.

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