[lit-ideas] Re: I need advice/input...

> 
> I've not gone for the smallest memory configs in my
> life.  Considering that
> laptops are, as L. points out, more challenging to do
> hardware upgrades to,
> what would you consider to be adequate RAM to serve for a
> couple years or
> so?
>
2GB minimum in my opinion, more is better. Adding RAM isn't actually that 
difficult though.

Word of caution though, I work with server computer nowadays, and thus have 
decreasing knowledge of laptops and desktop.s 

> 
> Prolly cuz I'm not terribly well informed or hugely
> wealthy.  There's
> probably a relatively straightforward way to accomplish
> what you refer to,
> but I don't know that I have time for that particular
> learning curve or
> financial resources for the hardware.
> 
I'd ask your computer dealer if he can get it pre-configured. There are 
basically two ways to run different operating environments in one machine, and 
it really is not that complicated nowadays. Either you do it the old-fashioned 
way, partition the hard disk to two or more environments and select the one you 
want at boot time. Or, as is increasingly common, you use a virtualization 
software like vmware to run several operation environments at the same time, 
and you can switch between them on the run. Then there is something relatively 
new and highly useful in larger environments called softgrid, but I will not 
get into that now...

> Unless I misunderstand what you're saying, I think what
> I would optimally
> wish is the inverse -- one environment (if I could mesh
> them both easily) on
> two computers.  I've just about decided that the office
> is going to have to
> have its own physical desktop for purposes of use by
> in-office
> warm-body-answering-the--phone personnel.
>
Well in that case several machines seems right.


Cheers,
Teemu
Helsinki, Finland


      
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