What features should I look for in a laptop for virtualization-heavy workloads?
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I do most of my development in VMware Workstation (version 7 at the moment). Unfortunately, on my laptop with 4 GB of RAM, an OCZ Vertex 2 240 GB, and a Core 2 Duo T9550 (2.66 GHz) does things criminally slowly when there's more than one VM running at a time (which given that I've been doing multi-…
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I think your problem has more to do with RAM than with CPU. If you can stuff more RAM in your laptop, it will go a long way. A good hypervisor can divide cpu time pretty well, but RAM has to be committed to specific VMs. After you max out RAM, look …
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