Powerful laptops

[#1]

Hi all,

Many laptops are restricted to 2Gb RAM, and in these days of virtualisation, SAP NetWeaver Sneak Previews, etc. it's just not enough any more.

Does anyone know of any really powerful laptops? I'm thinking 64-bit and as much memory as possible. In my dream machine, I run 64-bit Linux as the host O/S, with a Windows XP 32-bit guest O/S for daily work, and VMWare instances for hosting NetWeaver on 64-bit Linux. The problem is to find something I can carry around that will be able to achieve this. I'm almost thinking of a blade server with a handle - I can get to a client's site and plug in a keyboard and monitor. That may be overkill though.

Cheers,

Darren

[Former Member]

Hi Darren,

I just bought a Toshiba X200 22E laptop a couple of weeks ago. I must admit though that the main intention was gaming (you should see it run Call of Duty 4 - more real than real life ) when I was choosing my new laptop.

Specs -

Intel Centrino2 Duo - 2.20 GHz

3 GB RAM

250GB - HDD

nVidia GeForce 8700 GT 512 MB VRAM

HD Screen, HD Disk playing capability

17.4 inch Display

According to Toshiba, this is a Desktop replacement - not to be considered a laptop Although I haven't tried running any of the sneak previews yet on my machine, I don't think it would a problem at all as I have a 3.0GHz machine (desktop) with 3 GB of RAM which runs the sneak version without problems.

T00th