Sunday, December 26, 2010

The hardware:

After struggling with my old-good IBM x41 tablet, waiting a few hours for kernel compile, I decided not to waste my life on slow pc waiting, and instead go buy
something that would be a little bit faster.
It was pretty poor choice here, actually, as i wanted to get something really reliable, I decided that will be the Lenovo X series again.
They are pretty expensive and choice is poor, so i got an i3 370, as it is only 15% slower then the only alternative i5-520, but 25% cheaper. Changing disk drive to OCZ Vertex 2 and adding 4G memory did really good job.
There is nothing to talk about memory - it's just PLENTY of it (6G), but what really makes incredible things - is SSD drive.
Complete boot time to Ubuntu is 14 seconds, 7 of which as BIOS splash and devices testing. That's it, in 7 seconds device with OS is up and running.
The other thing - it's virtualization possibilities. I didn't found it immediately, VTD and some other virtualization features was off in BIOS by default.
Before switching them off virtual machine usually was using 100% of a core, after switching on - ten percent.
One more thing - win7 start-up - about 10 seconds, inside virtual machine
No lags, no waitings, or something.
Just great!

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