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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