11-24-2008 18:22
janiquec
Dell Precision M6400 Quad-Core Mobile Workstation – A Hyper-V Platform
I’ve been waiting for a nice high-end quad-core laptop that can be used as a serious test machine for my Hyper-V work. Well, Dell came through with such a sweet discount that I did not have to wait any longer to order one of their new Precision M6400 with the Intel QX9300 2.53 GHz, 1067 MHz, with 12 MB of L2 cache. I should receive it by mid-December, and will be waiting anxiously for it. I chose it above the M4400 for it’s ability to expand to 16 GB of RAM, which I plan to configure as soon as the 4 GB chips become available within a reasonable price range.
If anyone has already started to work with one of these, I’d love to hear your experiences. When I have it up and running and beefed up with an extra disk and additional memory, I’ll post about it and how it performs running Hyper-V.
Filed under: Virtualization, Virtual Server, Virtual Networks, Virtual Machine, Virtual Hard Disk, Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1, WSV, Windows Server Virtualization, Viridian, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, DELL M6400