[TriLUG] macbook question

[Ron Kelley]

I have two MacBook Pro models, and both run Fusion and assorted VMs with no problem.  But, they both have 8G RAM and i7 CPUs.

Keep in mind, the MacBook Air is a very light-weight "laptop" that  does a good job at surfing the web, checking email, etc.  For VM support, you will definitely want more horsepower if you plan on doing anything of significance while the VM is running.

Thanks,

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Ron Kelley
rkelleyrtp at gmail.com



On May 15, 2011, at 4:03 PM, James Jones wrote:

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