Ask HN: How much ram and which cpu for virtualization

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If you were going to buy a laptop today and you wanted to run some form of virtualization on to host linux, what would be the minimum hardware in terms of ram, cores etc you would be comfortable with?

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Comfortable: 16Gb minimum ram, i7 processor (let's say 2 cores) and SSD drive of 256Gb

Better: 32Gb ram, i7 processor (4 cores) and SSD of 512Gb

Brand: Lenovo, Dell, HP ... Doesn't really matter as long as they have decent support/warranty.

thanks, I was looking to do this on a macbook pro. looks like the 15" with the quadcore and 16gb would be the way to go. I was initially looking at 13" with dual core and 16gb due to batter life and weight.

The Macbook Pro using VMware Fusion (or Parallels, etc...) is a good choice, I have a similar setup working without a problem. 13" might be nice for traveling if you do that a lot, but when sitting at a desk the bigger screen is nice. (of course you could always connect an external screen but still).

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