[TriLUG] macbook question

James Jones jc.jones at tuftux.com
Sun May 15 16:03:24 EDT 2011


Do any of you that have answered my email have a MacBook of any kind
or are you answers based on technical specs?

jcj



On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:20 AM, John Broome <jbroome at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 07:47, Ron Kelley <rkelleyrtp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> According to Apple's website, the best Macbook Air you can purchase has an Intel 2.13GHz Core-2 Duo with 4G RAM.  While you *can* >run VMWare Fusion (virtualization software) on that kind of hardware, you won't get very good performance.
>
> Plus 'only' a 256 gb drive, you start making a windows image, a linux
> image, etc you'll run out of space pretty quick.
>
> A 13" MBP gets you an i5 or i7 plus a max of 8GB ram (which for some
> reason i thought was 16gb) and will support whatever laptop sata drive
> you want to put in there.
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