On Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 11:44:51 AM UTC-5, 799 wrote: > <nosugar...@gmail.com> schrieb am Sa., 23. Feb. 2019, 14:35: > > Not quite sure why people try use Qubes with laptops. I found far better > > performance on desktops. Laptops are the opposite of flexible. PC's you can > > upgrade to your hearts content.
I disagree that laptops aren't flexible. E.g. A 2011(!)-era Thinkpad W520 can be upgraded to 32GB of RAM and 16.4TB of SSD (2 x 7.68TB 2.5" SSD; 1 x 1TB mSATA SSD). 17.4TB SSD if you don't need all your drives to support a standard hardware FDE and don't mind cracking open one of Samsung's portable drives to extract the 2TB mSATA board. Newer higher-end Thinkpad models can do 64B or 128GB of RAM, have 6 core options (12 threads possible, but we turn off HT for now) and support internal 4K displays...but due to the switch M.2 being primary storage with some support for 0 or 1 2.5" SSDs, they are currently limited to 4TB SSD of storage (or 11.5TB if they support 1 2.5" SSD). Faster though...and lighter than older models. > Maybe because for 90% a laptop offers enough performance, has much lower > space & power requirement and can be used flexible? Agreed. I have performed installs on the x230 and x230 tablet and they are quite usable with 16GB of RAM after a little bit of tweaking. Chris Laprise has posted handy default memory tuning advice on this mailing list for constrained memory systems. B -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/c6fa765e-be53-44ef-b178-701e976446b0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
