[AuckLUG] Buying a Laptop

[Nevyn]

On 5/27/07, Mark Foster <blakjak at blakjak.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 27 May 2007, Patrick Gildea wrote:
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> > I'm going to be dual booting  between linux and Windows 2000 and windows
> > Vista :( unfortunately my work requires windows. I'm trouble shooting windows
> > computers.
> >
>
> Sounds like Tri-Booting.
>
> /pedant
>
> Seriously though, these days - esp if you have the Ram to manage it - you
> should consider a Virtual Machine.  Oh, and avoid Vista...
>
> *snipped*
>
> Mark.

Yeah - got to second that. I can see why some I.T. professionals are
having to go the way of the Vista just so that they're able to support
it when they've gotten used to the problems of XP to the stage where
they're no longer problems.

VM's though - brilliant. I've been tested a whole lot of distributions
on a VM - in fact I won't even install onto a real machine until it's
been tested on the VM and I know that I like it.