Powerful laptops

[darren_hague]

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]

powerful AND laptop... 2 words that should never be used together!

[stephenjohannes]

Eric,

Actually I think you can get some pretty decent computing power now of days from a laptop computer. Then again I'm working on a system with 4GB RAM physical, Core 2 Duo T7800 processor at 2.60GHZ with over a 100GB+ of disk, and it is a laptop not a desktop machine.

It definitely beats my home desktop D930 based system that only has 2GB (but has 320GB raid 0, yes I live on the edge at times).

Take care,

Stephen

[Former Member]

Hello Darren!

I think you have seen the laptop that I got at the community day - here are the details:

DELL XPS M1330

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9300 (2.5GHz/800Mhz FSB/6MB cache)

Slim and Light LED Display with VGA Webcam

4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz

Speed: 250GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive Free Fall Sensor

There is also a 320GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) available but I went for the little smaller but faster drive.

128MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8400M GS

The laptop is great for travelling and I like the display, size and speed.

The only thing I don't like is Windows Vista but I am working on a replacement.

Harald

[darren_hague]

Hi Harald,

The Dell looks very interesting - it's even available with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed (could be good for you...). I need to talk to our IT dept about budget.

Cheers,

Darren

[JPReyes]

I need to talk to our IT dept about budget. 

They'll probably approve a 386 instead... cheap IT managers... hehehe

[Former Member]

Darren!

I could have just shouted down the office... but you can get one of these! Upto 4gb Ram!

http://www.alienware.co.uk/product_detail_pages/area-51_m9750/area-51m_specs.aspx?SysCode=PC-EU-LT-A...

• Intel® Core™2 Duo Processors (2MB Cache, 667MHz FSB)

• Intel 945PM + ICH7M-DH Chipset

• Up to 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz

• 2 dedicated SO-DIMM slots for Dual Channel DDR2 Memory

[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