[AuckLUG] Buying a Laptop

[Ravi Chemudugunta]

VM's need a lot of RAM: it's not a bad thing ... extra RAM is always good! I
am dual booting because when I got my laptop I only had 256 MB ...

On 5/27/07, Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/27/07, Mark Foster <blakjak at blakjak.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 27 May 2007, Patrick Gildea wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
>
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