I have used this for multiple OS on same machine with good results and sooooooo easy to install and create new virtual machine. I actually made a thread on it some years ago on TL http://www.virtualbox.org/
And another one of my favorites for placing an iso file on a Flash stick with another OS on it and boot the new OS from the flash stick http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
I more than welcome Sam and also honor him King of Shopping deals as this clearly is not my dept and I rather stink at it ... LOL ( edit : except for Scat who is clearly King of all amazing Dell bargains hands down ) ( edit : edit: I will give myself a little credit , I know where every item in every isle is located in Microcenter... hahahaha )
That's how I feel too at Fry's. Now if they would let me help myself and use their inhouse sales computer...
Not a great image but I said I would post an updated pic of desk setup There is also another HP laptop not shown and an ipad also not shown.
Great setup Tiki! You are not kidding about the exercise ball! What models are your HP laptops? That's the only brand I use too. For whatever reasons... I became a HP guy. All my desktops, laptops... until I started my own brand. Unfortunately making your own laptop is a lot harder than putting the pieces together for a desktop. Laptop designs really are different animals. I hope I can do that someday... pull this chassis, pull that keyboard, this motherboard, that graphics chip, this LCD screen, that wifi adapter.
They are HP Pavillion dv 8000 ( 17 inch screen ) and dv 6000 ( 15 inch ). They have been around a little while but do the job very well. Both have XP os and The dv6000 is an AMD turion 64 x2 (dual core) while the dv 8000 has an AMD turion.
My older one is HP dv9730us. Shows its age. The current one is dv8t 1100 featuring i7 720QM processor. I like the speed of the new laptop. A bit faster. But it has an issue that the wifi button will go on and off randomly (and the treble/bass softkeys as well). It is really annoying. It is a design flaw of some sort. I am really disappointed that HP won't acknowledge the problem and won't do recalls. So far I have returned this new laptop to HP once... screen connection issue. The last HP laptop dv9730 I sent back 3 times. 2 disk drive problems and 1 motherboard problem. My confidence in HP laptop is not very high. Their desktops are better. I had 4 HP (Compaq) boxes and all worked well.
SSD is the way to go... Today's price... it is still high Intel 320 Series 600 GB SATA 3.0 Gb-s Buy new: $1,206.13 The 120 GB Intel SSD that I installed on my laptop... Already 90% full! I don't know where the storage went!!! Want to get a 250 GB SSD but the price seems still high. Perhaps wait for a year. But before too long... we will all be running multiple 600 GB SSD on a RAID-5 configuration on our desktop.
This is great stuff and I agree an SSD is clearly the way to go. (First -Prices need to get still get lower ) I too can fill a hard drive fairly quick when needed. A HHD is still cost efficient at this time but there are some great sales on SSD. Sam will hook us up. I posted some info on raid setups for anyone who wants to research more, but I think the link may be having trouble. Here it is again, if link does not work just say so and I will try to find a good link. http://download.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/irst_user_guide.pdf