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> I wouldn't recommend for VMs though. Why not? I have a laptop with a 4th gen i5 that has VT-x. I've upgraded it to 16 GB RAM and an SSD. For now, it's a Spot
by vladvasiliu 6y ago
> I wouldn't recommend for VMs though.
Why not? I have a laptop with a 4th gen i5 that has VT-x. I've upgraded it to 16 GB RAM and an SSD. For now, it's a Spotify connect player but I'm contemplating running a couple VMs on it too, like pi-hole and whatnot.
- iagovar 6y agoWell, but that's not that old. If you have that lying around then definitely.
- oarsinsync 6y ago4th gen is 2013-2014, so up to 6-7 years old. Sure, that’s still reasonable, but it’s not young. I’m also using similar class hardware for my VM server at home. Works well enough for home workloads, and for everything else there’s the cloud on demand.
- iagovar 6y agoI have an thinkpad x220 with some core-duo on it and 4GB Ram, can't remember, and it really was struggling with VMs. Didn't really cared much to check the specs. Just tried some debian VMs and it was less than satisfying.