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Rotterdams
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Hi guys,

 

I want to buy a laptop just for home study.

 

I will be using vmware/hyper-v to install and controll Windows Server 2016 systems.

 

What kind of minimum hardware will I need for this? And which hardware part is important?

 

I dont want it to be slow. But I want it to be super cheap aswel. I will buy a gaming laptop seperate from this. This laptop will just be for learning.

 

I dont want to run those applications on my gaming laptop (which i havent bought yet lol)

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I would get a desktop for gaming and give me a few min for a decent laptop. 

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a Wii and PS2 as your only consoles.

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2 minutes ago, Rotterdams said:

I want it to be super cheap

For the super cheap, I recommend buying a used laptop. They really don't hold their value well. I got a Windows 7 Dell laptop, 4 GB RAM, i5 CPU, for $15 at a garage sale. On eBay they won't go that cheap, but you can still get some amazing deals! 

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA42J4T30909 that should be fine for some VM's. let me know if you got a budge for the gaming system 

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a Wii and PS2 as your only consoles.

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GF PC: (NightHawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb 860 evo, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

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Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

HP probook 445R G6 review

 

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20 minutes ago, Rotterdams said:

Hi guys,

 

I want to buy a laptop just for home study.

 

I will be using vmware/hyper-v to install and controll Windows Server 2016 systems.

 

What kind of minimum hardware will I need for this? And which hardware part is important?

 

I dont want it to be slow. But I want it to be super cheap aswel. I will buy a gaming laptop seperate from this. This laptop will just be for learning.

 

I dont want to run those applications on my gaming laptop (which i havent bought yet lol)

Your situation makes no since to me.  But just get something with 8GB of ram, fast storage, and a CPU that supports virtualization.

Please spend as much time writing your question, as you want me to spend responding to it.  Take some time, and explain your issue, please!

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