Suggestion needed: Decent laptop for 12c Sample App image.

Manoj Dixit

Hi,

Could you please suggest me a decent laptop to deploy OBI EE 12C sample app image? If not a particular model, pointers to configuration will also be fine, such as minimum RAM and Hard Disk size, benefits of having SSD?

Thank you.

Regards,

Manoj.

Gianni Ceresa

Minimum 16Gb of RAM if you don't want to die ...

Disk space I guess the image needs a bit more of 60Gb (more when extracting as there is the OVA etc.)

Of course, being a server app, the more the better (for RAM, CPU etc.)

Manoj Dixit

Thank you Gianni.

Any thought about SSD? Deployment guide recommends it. The cost goes up, so just checking whether or not having it does really make a difference.

Regards,

Manoj.

Edit/PS: My current 8gb machine takes half an hour to start the services which I want to reduce.

Thomas Dodds

I've never yet run the VMs on a SSD ... mine run from a USB 2.0 3TB plugin drive --- and I can fire up 2-3 different instances of the VMs at a time ... your key will be RAM & CPU -- my smallest laptop to run VMs for demos is 32GB -- this machine is 5+ yrs old; works like a champ.

Gianni Ceresa

Of course if you can have a SSD is nicer, but VMs doesn't require a SSD, your issues will more be RAM/CPU than the disk (as long as you are not using a USB2 drive).

So not mandatory, as Thomas said he is perfectly living without for his VMs

Thomas Dodds

@Gianni Ceresa ... I'll have to check ... my VM USB drive might be 3.0, but I've had it 'so long' I'm thinking it's 2.0 -- might not be!  (I no longer carry it having left the traveling sales engineer / dev manager gig! )

I don't recall ever having a performance issue -- not even with my OBIA (EBS sourced) demo VM.

Gianni Ceresa

Well, till some years ago USB2 wasn't a problem, nowadays you can feel it a bit more and USB3 helps on that. But most of us still hit RAM limits, so the disk doesn't matter a lot (as soon as you swap you are lost, even on SSD )

[Deleted User]

Good thing is that ssd and 16gb is pretty much standard now.

Gianni Ceresa

For pro/dev laptop yes (forget for consumer laptops, they still stop mainly at 8Gb).

This remind me I was lurking just yesterday at the Lenovo P50 with a Xeon CPU, 64Gb RAM and 2Tb raid0 SSD (never enough!)

Thomas Dodds

Sweet talk them into a free one for @Christian Berg and I when you purchase yours ...

[Deleted User]

Uuuhh yes please!!