I always have a custom laptop built by PC Specialist in the UK.
My current one was about £1400;
quad core I7
32GB RAM
1TB SSD at 500Mb/s
1/2TB M2 running at 2Gb/s
GeForce 650m GPU to run up to 3 screens.
I would have gone for a 64GB model. but I wanted the portability of a 14"
screen. 17" laptops can be more powerful, but are just too big and heavy to
carry around.
Given I can spin up 6 Linux VM's under Win10, with about 5GB each and still
tick along fine, I think that's good enough.
There's a fair chance a corporate won't support custom builds, so perhaps
Dell's Alienware 15 range is the way to go (if they will pay for it)?
Neil
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Sent: 25 October 2016 08:19
To: Backseat DBA
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Subject: Re: OT: laptop recommendations to run Virtual Box vms'
Hi
I use a laptop (dell precision 7510) with 64GB ram and NVME 512GB (Samsung
SM951) storage, it's very fast, I can run 2 RAC (2 nodes each), Cloud Control
12c.
SSD should be good enough and get more than 16GB if you plan to run Enterprise
Manager plus some VMs.
BR
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Jeff Chirco
<backseatdba@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:backseatdba@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hey looking for opinions, I am working on getting a new laptop from work, my
primary workstation is a desktop so the laptops are mostly a dumb terminal to
just remote desktop from. But I would like to use this laptop as a sandbox and
install Virtual Box and host a some VM's with Oracle database and EM to play
with. I have not really done any work with Virtual Box so I am just wondering
if 8gb of RAM is good enough or should I try to get 16gb. And I will try to get
256gb SSD.
Anybody have recommendations. Our company typically buys Dell Latitude's but I
am looking at the Yoga 900.
Thanks,
Jeff
