Laptop configuration : Linux, VM... etc

[Todd Cole]

I have a Lenovo with similar specifications that we will be using as a demo
at the installfest Saturday
it is currently running 14.04 host duel booted with windows and several
linux guests and windows guests in virtualbox. Feel free to stop by and
play with it.  current software tools make it easy to convert a hardware os
to a Virtual guest. Todd


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:45 AM, <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm pondering buying a Dell laptop with an Intel Core i3-4030U processor
> and 4GB of DDR3, 1600MHz RAM.
>
> Benchmark seems decent :  http://www.cpubenchmark.net/
> cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-4030U+%40+1.90GHz
>
> CPU seems rather good :  http://ark.intel.com/products/
> 81018/Intel-Core-i3-4030U-Processor-3M-Cache-1_90-GHz
>
> I would like to load Linux on it to use it as a LAMP development box.
>  Most of my work is custom PHP, however I may need to spend some time with
> Drupal which is a resource hog.  It is my hope running local-host would
> mitigate some of the Drupal issues.
>
> I might want to use it to edit videos and potentially images.
>
> I was thinking of using a Modern IE  https://www.modern.ie/en-us/
> virtualization-tools in a Virtual Box https://www.virtualbox.org/ so I
> can have Internet Explorer for testing.
>
> I don't think I will need any other Windows software, or at least that is
> my hope.
>
> I have not done something like this before so I thought I would ask the
> experts.  Is my approach solid or is there something I am missing or should
> consider?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Keith
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