On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Moinak Ghosh<moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Kaya Saman<SamanKaya at netscape.net> wrote: >> Sriram Narayanan wrote: > [...] [...] >> Laptops are great for portability! I do need a desktop though as my PIV >> isn't enough. I am looking at a Lenovo dual socket quad core with 25GB of >> RAM. I intend to couple a triple head display system to it using 3x Sony >> widescreen TV's when I have my own place and the money :-) >> >> I also need new servers, a larger router that can handle VoIP SIP and SRST >> trunks, and can be a VPN aggregator too using IPsec. Oh, and a 12TB file >> store..... that's my shopping list LOL. >>> > > ? Router widescreen et. al. are fine but why the hell do you need 25GB RAM ? > ? That is an enterprise server configuration. 4 GB is enough for builds plus 1 > ? VM. 8GB if you want upto 3 VMs and 16GB if you want to go full-monty > ? crazy with your home system. There is really no need for more. The BeleniX > ? website is an 8GB RAM SUN X-series blade server. The BeleniX build > + repository' > ? mirror server machine in Russia is an 8GB RAM Xeon system.
Also instead of splurging on so much RAM consider getting a cool Nvidia display card (9x series or GTX if you can appord it) with 1GB GDDR3 VRAM. Then play on with CUDA, OpenCL, Vadapav ... er um ... VDPAU (The Mplayer in BeleniX has VDPAU support) and other cool stuff. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ P.S.: VDPAU + Vadapav makes for a cool evening with hidef movies.
