[176051] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Tue Nov 11 00:59:37 2014
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From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <adc27e8c-e7f0-4edf-89d4-1dbc377d7f2a@email.android.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:41:10 -0800
To: Izaac <izaac@setec.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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"Nobody will ever need more than 64K...M...G..."
George William Herbert
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> On Nov 10, 2014, at 4:24 PM, Izaac <izaac@setec.org> wrote:
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>> On November 10, 2014 4:49:08 PM EST, lobna gouda <lobna_gouda@hotmail.com=
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Any recommendation, not looking for anything fantasy, my understanding
>> it should be quardcore, with more than DIMM0 slot so each can have 8G.
>> wind7-64bits to work. I want to use it as a server or practice logical
>> routers =20
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> "Cheap" and "64GiB of RAM" are incompatible concepts in laptops.
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> There is no earthly reason you should need to carry a machine like that an=
yway. If for some reason you need something so equipped, get yourself a clou=
d instance and connect to it. That's how you save money.
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> If you're stuck working in a completely isolated environment, then work it=
into the contract. That's the cost of being on an island.
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> --=20
> Izaac
