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Author: Stephen
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Subject: Re: Looking for Laptop Recommendations
Something to look at also might be XenClient, So with an Intel chil
that supports vtxd and vt you can have windows and linux side by side.
I have used it and it realy is possibly the coolest VM implementation
i have yet to use.

To sum up you have a bare metal hypervisor. but you still have
graphics and that can be shared between 2 guest OS's on the same
hardware. this does require a little bit of consideration of the
hardware you will use and maybe more ram than you might normally
choose, but when i used it it was amazing because you can run both and
switch smoothly between them.

http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=2300325
and i think you cna set it up for personal use for free still.

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Ed <> wrote:
> Suggested: 4 Gig of RAM is best, if you go with a notebook make sure
> the ATOM chip will do hardware virtualization[1]. I mention a notebook
> because long battery life and small size will be appreciated by your
> daughter. and it is more likely to survive than a full size laptop.
> don't worry about processor speed - anything over 1ghz is enough for
> linux
>
> [1] http://ark.intel.com/products/family/29035
>
> Happy New Year All!!
>
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Mark Phillips
> <> wrote:
>> My daughter needs a "new" laptop for high school. It needs to run Debian or
>> Ubunrtu and have enough horsepower to run Windows XP in VMware Player for
>> iTunes. A refurbished machine is OK. I am mostly interested in what you
>> would recommend as minimum hardware specs (processor 7 RAM) for this
>> configuration. Also, if you have another suggestion for running Linux and
>> iTunes, I am all ears! ;)
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mark
>>
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