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Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations
From: John Schiel <jschiel () flowtools net>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:32:23 -0700
On 11/12/2014 01:59 PM, Bacon Zombie wrote: Bacon and Zombies, 2 of my favorite things !!!
I'd say 60% of laptops at security conferences I've been to are Lenovo, 30% Apple and 10% Dell/other.
Not advocating either way just bringing up the nugget of info that I'm aware of.
--John
On 12 Nov 2014 20:35, "John Schiel" <jschiel () flowtools net <mailto:jschiel () flowtools net>> wrote:On 11/11/2014 05:54 PM, lobna gouda wrote: Thanks all for your reply, lenovo seems decent almost all the pc ( lenovo and hp) are decent with the 16G.somebody mentioned with 16g it is a bit slow; Keith here is saying the 32G he had no issue. i intend to buy my own memory just to save on the costi agree 64 will be sky expensive and cloud will do, then.By the way W530 is replaced by W540, donot see much benefit for my case. Be careful with Lenovo, some folks think it has a bad security reputation. Why? *shrug*, not sure but maybe because it's a Chinese company with ties to the PRC and IIRC, there was a BIOS flaw. --John Brgds, Lobna Gouda Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:13:09 -0800 From: blakangel () gmail com <mailto:blakangel () gmail com> To: nanog () nanog org <mailto:nanog () nanog org> Subject: Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations I have an almost two-year old Lenovo W530 with 32G ram. I've been happy with it. I don't find myself taking advantage of the ram (w/ VMWare Workstation) as much as I thought I would. http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/w530/ -Keith Darden, Patrick wrote: If there is a cheap quad-core laptop with 64GB of ram and no huge downsides... then sign me up! I expect that will be the standard in 5 years, but right now that is a hoss. Izaac's suggestion of using the cloud is good, if you can do it. Cloud services have come a long way--fast and easy to set up complex environments. Great article comparing performance and costs: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2610403/cloud-computing/ultimate-cloud-speed-tests--amazon-vs--google-vs--windows-azure.html --p -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org <mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org>] On Behalf Of Izaac Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 6:25 PM To: NANOG Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations On November 10, 2014 4:49:08 PM EST, lobna gouda <lobna_gouda () hotmail com <mailto:lobna_gouda () hotmail com>> wrote: Hello, Any recommendation, not looking for anything fantasy, my understanding it should be quardcore, with more than DIMM0 slot so each can have 8G. wind7-64bits to work. I want to use it as a server or practice logical routers "Cheap" and "64GiB of RAM" are incompatible concepts in laptops. There is no earthly reason you should need to carry a machine like that anyway. If for some reason you need something so equipped, get yourself a cloud instance and connect to it. That's how you save money. If you're stuck working in a completely isolated environment, then work it into the contract. That's the cost of being on an island. -- Izaac
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- Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations, (continued)
- Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations Izaac (Nov 10)
- Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations Lyndon Nerenberg (Nov 10)
- Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations Izaac (Nov 11)
- Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations George Herbert (Nov 10)
- RE: Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations Darden, Patrick (Nov 11)
- Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations blakangel (Nov 11)
- RE: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations lobna gouda (Nov 11)
- Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations John Schiel (Nov 12)
- Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations Bacon Zombie (Nov 12)
- RE: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations lobna gouda (Nov 12)
- Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations John Schiel (Nov 12)
- Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations Lyndon Nerenberg (Nov 10)
- Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations Izaac (Nov 10)