On 12/1/22 4:12 pm, Jeremy Ardley wrote:
Typical laptops off the shelf offer 8G ram, 256G drive (beware of SATA instead of preferred PCIe) and if you are lucky a 1T SATA secondary HDD (mistake in previous post 1T not 1G).My advice is if you are going to be doing any virtual work is get a laptop withThe only requirement is to have virtualisation available.- decent processor ( I use Ryzen mid range ) - Expandable memory to 32G - NVME PCIe system drive (256G upwards) - Large internal secondary drive - typically SATA 1G +In terms of things just working nicely, I prefer ASUS, but most brands with those specs will be able to do all you want.Standard off the shelf systems are either very expensive or don't have the memory and disk you will need.Get the cheapest one with the capabilities needed and do the upgrades yourself for usually a lot cheaper-- Jeremy
Check the specs on these to see how much RAM you can upgrade to. 32G or better is what you want.
And always get a good CPU to start with. Ryzen 5 is very workable. -- Jeremy
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