I am in the middle of doing this as well and went with a Dell E-6520 maxed out on RAM, CPU, and video. It will come in about $2k US. I will also be getting an e-SATA drive setup (most likely a build my own as it will allow me to replace the drive later) to put all the VM's and Virtual manager server and direct boot from the e-SATA. If you have the extra money I would look at a Dell Precision laptop. You can get a lot more RAM but the cost of the base machine is much higher.
Jon On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Mark Smith <winsysad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I need to purchase a laptop to run a virtualized test environment on. > So it will need a CPU that supports VT of course. I'm thinking quad core > would be best to handle the VM load. > I'd like to have the option of running an SSD for the primary drive and a > large SATA drive for storage. > I'm having a hard time finding which laptops support 2 hard drives. > It would be nice if it had mobile broadband (WWAN) support, so I could just > pop a SIM card in it - I keep breaking my dongle ;) but I doubt I'll find a > high powered laptop with that option. > Any recommendations, opinions would be great. > > Thanks, > Mark > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
