Looking for Laptop Suggestions

[Eric Cope]

Macs are pretty...
Macs are BSD, so you can support it too.

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Joe <lists at joefleming.net> wrote:

> I run 32-bit XP in VirtualBox on my X360. It's a low-voltage, dual-core
> 1.2GHz chip (SU9300) with 3GB of RAM running 64-bit Ubuntu (8.10 at the
> moment). It runs pretty fast for me; that is, the fan doesn't seem to go
> crazy and there's no real noticeable lag in the host or the VM. To be
> fair though, I haven't really used it much since I installed it, except
> to look at one website in IE.
>
> A friend of mine with the same laptop signed up for the professional
> license from Sun (free for personal use,
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL) and used the virtual XP
> to configure his Harmony remote via USB. I don't see why the same
> solution wouldn't work for you, assuming you had a machine of comparable
> power.
>
> -Joe
>
> Mark Phillips wrote:
> > No one mentioned a VM solution - boot Linux and run Windows with some
> form
> > of vmware for ITunes. Am I looking at yet more expense for high end
> hardware
> > (lots of RAM and dual core)? I have tried vmware on my P4 2 GHz laptop
> and
> > it works but a little too slow. Also, the fan sounds like a blender on
> max,
> > so it kind of defeats the quiet aspect of a laptop.
> >
> > I have also had great experiences with older Dell hardware, but I have
> heard
> > that their quality is falling.
> >
> > Thanks for all the input - any vmware/other vm solutions on Linux fans
> out
> > there with recommendations for good laptop hardware?
> >
> > Mark
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