I am using Dell XPS L502X with inbuilt 500gb and custom added hard disk in place of cdrom [Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Solid State Hybrid Drive ST750LX003] I am using oracle virtual box ...3 nodes , one for open filer , 2nd for rac , 3rd for rac 2nd node also have dns server in place. with oracle 11gR2 on Oracle Linux 5.7 I think . have to check on that. Works fine.. I also own an MSI with 12Gb Mem. and 1Tb hard disk , which also works fine..for RAC. recently we testing EBS ...12R Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120830-0333) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: Dell Inc. System Model: Dell System XPS L502X BIOS: Default System BIOS Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.2GHz Memory: 16384MB RAM Available OS Memory: 16278MB RAM On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On 01/01/2013 7:52 PM, Jared Still wrote: > > No, there were no 16g models available a month ago. > > The previous generation of MacBook Pro went to 16g. > > I did do some research first. :) > > > Very strange. I ordered new, and have been using a MacBook Pro 15" w/ > Retina screen and 16GB RAM, from the factory, since beginning of July > 2012. Used it at Open World. > > That 16GB was an option, tucked away on the 'order' page. The amount of > RAM can not be changed once delivered. > > /Hans > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l