Mark Simms
marksimms at verizon.net
Sat Nov 5 16:29:05 CDT 2011
Sorry, I should have QUALIFIED this....REAL MACHINE ONLY... Virtual Machine set-up ? Definitely needs much more than 4 gigs...probably 4GB PER VM ! And John got exactly my point: SSD means less DRAM needed. > I just replaced my Dell m90 laptop with a $600 Toshiba with an AMD A6- > 3650 quad core and 6 gigs of > RAM. The laptop clocks the cores at around 1.4 g but they can > automatically overclock up to about > 2.1 g (I think). I then run a virtual machine server with a quad core > AMD clocked at 3.3 g and each > VM (there are three main VMs) is given a single core and anywhere from > 3 gigs to 6 gigs of ram.