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Laptop with Quad Core for early holiday gift -

Looking to get myself an early holiday gift and was thinking of splurging on a laptop with the Intel Core 2 Quad Core Extreme QX9300 with 8+ GB of RAM was wondering if anyone has used a similar setup to ruin ESX under workstation? Thanks in advance -

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Texiwill
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Hello,

I have a Dual Core T9500 w/8GBs of memory... Model HP 8710w... However the HP 8730w is now out and I would aim for it. Quad cores run too hot and burn too much battery to be of much use in a laptop at the moment. Hopefully that will change.


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well, I run it on a MacBook Pro and it already runs fine - so it should run better on your box. consider buying an external drive to fasten the access so ideally go for a box that has either PCCard for eSATA or Firewire 800 to gain maximum speed - for me alway HDD was limiting

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Drop Texiwill a PM as I know he has such a beast

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Texiwill
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Hello,

I have a Dual Core T9500 w/8GBs of memory... Model HP 8710w... However the HP 8730w is now out and I would aim for it. Quad cores run too hot and burn too much battery to be of much use in a laptop at the moment. Hopefully that will change.


Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

====

Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.

SearchVMware Blog: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/

Blue Gears Blogs - http://www.itworld.com/ and http://www.networkworld.com/community/haletky

As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

--
Edward L. Haletky
vExpert XIV: 2009-2023,
VMTN Community Moderator
vSphere Upgrade Saga: https://www.astroarch.com/blogs
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Texiwill
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