DIY Notebook

cbigbrick

Does anyone know of a vender that has bare bones notebook that will support 2 hard drives and atleast 2 GB of RAM???

Thanks in advance.

bighornsheep

custom notebooks are popular in Asia and Europe.

2 harddrives are not common I dont think...any particular reason may I ask?

as for 2gb of ram, that's not a big problem, you could customize that with many vendors, Dell, and Apple for example.

cbigbrick

I'm was planning to use the second drive to install VMWare to build a virtural Windows 2003 network. Exchange, DNS, AD, etc... I plan to use to design and test theories before doing it in the lab. I'm kind of on the road a lot so this would help. You know...down time in the Hotel!!!

C

Also...I can Ghost the drive in different intervals for recovery purposes.

jkstech

actually 2 hard drives isn't uncommon either, I have a fujitsu N6420 that has two 100gb drives, first drive is for the system, second is devoted to my vmware virtual lab, works great!!!!

2gb ram, 19" widescreen, I can't complain.....i'm impressed with the fujitsu laptop, I really like, i'd hate to see it go if I ever leave my job

blargoe

Just go with a large single hard drive, max out the memory, go dual core for sure. if you want to run a bunch of machines. No need for a separate hard drive or even a separate partition.

cbigbrick

I see HP has a laptop that has 2 HD also.

Philippatos

Yeah, but if you buy an HP laptop and register it, the board of directors could decide to steal your identity. A couple scapegoats and one hefty fine later and nobody even has to admit any "wrongdoing". So I doubt you'd be able to do anything about it either.

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/09/eng20061209_330508.html

The big corporation is always right. You're always wrong. And the lawyers and politicians (usually one and the same) keep making out like bandits.

Just another example of our legal injustice system at work...

Slowhand

cbigbrick wrote:

Also...I can Ghost the drive in different intervals for recovery purposes.

I haven't used VMWare all too much, but I know that with Virtual PC you install the machines onto virtual hard drives, files saved on your host computer, so there's no need for seperate partitions. You should be able to ghost the virtual hard disks as if they were physical hard drives, regardless of the hardware configuration of your host computer.