[TriLUG] your favorite lowish cost thin laptop

Jim jjtuttle at trilug.org
Tue Jan 18 13:50:22 EST 2011


On 01/18/2011 01:40 PM, Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Joel J. Adamson
> <adamsonj at email.unc.edu>  wrote:
>> What the heck are you using your laptops for?
> Virtual machines for testing, especially build/deployment testing. I
> also tend to use VMs to sandbox some common activities (eg. banking)
> for security reasons.
>
> Cheers,

I wouldn't even consider running a VM on the single core X100e I used 
for some time.  It runs Windows 7 and is dog slow.  Firefox is a stress 
to the system.  Haven't tried Linux on it since it wasn't mine.




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