<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hi,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>As you might recall I had ordered an HP laptop and after the input from the PLUG list I decided to cancel that order and buy a Dell 660. It is a i5 with 8MB of RAM.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I hope to use that box to replace the two laptops I currently use to do LAMP dev. The laptop I use for my desktop is running windows. The other laptop is running CentoOS 6. I migrated to laptops because of the heat my two mini-towers were putting out. It does make a difference.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I would like to configure
the i5 with Linux to uses as my desktop and 2 virtual machines to use as 1) Windows so I have access to those things windows can only do like IE, and 2) a LAMP server running CentOS.</span></div><div><br>I was thinking as a base Kubuntu and I am not sure which way to go with visualization? <br><br>Also if I do not register the windows that come with this box and load Linux immediately do you know if I can find a Win 8 image that I can load into a VM and use my registration key with?<br><br>I am very new to visualization so any advice you offer will be a big help!!<br><br>Thanks!!<br><br>Keith<br><br></div></div></body></html>