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new laptop specs: i7 CPU, graphics card, & RAM



At long last it's time for a new laptop. I'm planning to run a lot on it: at least 3 VMs (Windows, Linux, and Mac) under virtualbox. plus server stuff like apache, MySQL, a CMS or two (likely drupal and wordpress) in addition to a lot of 'workstation' kinds of apps like Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP (on large photos), music- and other audio-players, video player (to view movies on DVD), etc., etc. on the Linux VM.

In other words, there'll be a whole lotta stuff running on this machine. And I want it to be responsive... not just "pretty good" and definitely not sluggish.

On my current (nearly ancient 150 MHz) laptop running Linux, I can do everything "pretty good", except that when watching movies on it the sound and video get out of sync and when I browse to some particularly hoggish websites, the CPU load goes up to 4 or 5 or 6 or more. I don't want that to happen on the Linux VM on the new laptop... or on the other VMs either.

So does anyone here run something like this? If so, what CPU and graphics card does your system have and how much RAM does it have? Does it run "pretty good"...? or slow...? or does everything come onscreen the split-second the finger leaves the mouse button? Can you watch movies and have the video and audio stay in sync? Does everything on the web come up fast, or do some pages take awhile to render?


TIA for responses, favorable and unfavorable.

Shopping with eyes open,
ken


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