ok, i admit i am a bit crazy about technology, but i am a bit dullified about spending money RIGHT right away Too!!

How intelligent it is: We have been taught to not look directly at the source of light as it might harm your eyes etc etc.. and that is exactly what we are doing in today’s world, looking at Laptop/Desktop Screens/Tv’s etc, which are a direct source of emitted light in some form. Anyways…

I wanted to share this info with all the DBA’s who have been looking around for a good reliable laptop for setting up their personal database related environment)

I have been shopping around for a laptop that can become my ultimate base for running virtual environment with lots is apps installed. Here is what i was planning to install on this new LAPTOP:
SQL Server 2005, 2008  developer editions both on BASE OS (Windows 7 Professional Edition) and Oracle 11g, Sybase or MySQL in a virtual machine(s) probably using VMware workstation.(with windows 2003 R2 as a BASE OS/Oralce Ent Linux), Visual Studio 2008 or later. Ms office, some Video Editing Software, Email Software, Other Evaluation Tools as well, some security software as well and yes i forgot to mention SharePoint.

so you see, as the requirements are increasing so should the hardware to match up with the load.
What i found was this offer from HP.com which is too exciting to ignore: click here to see the Core i7 system.

Of course i wont be running all the application at once, but are good to have them together and rather than buying a DESKTOP and getting stuck at one place, i wanted a laptop, that too not more than 15.6” in screen size, so i can move it around easily.

Core i7 has 6MB L2 Cache, which is better as it can store more information from Memory and has to travel less frequently to Physical Memory to get Data, so faster processing [higher clock speed]. (a 8MB L2 version is also available but who cares.. both are almost similar) Again this is a shared Cache, so all 4 cores will share the 6MB L2 Cache. Each core has 2 threads, so the CPU has to switch less frequently (less context switches) .

I can pump in a additional 4 GB and can get this laptop to 8GB RAM and i am done for at least another couple of years.(almost).

Right now i have a system that is Windows XP Lenovo R61 Core 2 Duo T7300 with 4GB of RAM, which has SQL Server 2005/2008 and Oracle 11g(disabled while running sql server) and Runs like a charm, but without any VM’s, which was and upgrade from my previous laptop which was a ACER Aspire 9411AWSMI T2300 or something, which had 2GB(upgraded to 4) and SQL 2005 and 2008, if i ever tried to run oracle too, it would hang up and i had to reboot. (upgraded to Windows 7 Professional)