laptop VMware images

That's a fairly low price point for a high-end laptop ... I'll let you look at the various options; but will give you a few guidelines ...

(1)  For any laptop you're considering, look here:  http://processorfinder.intel.com/Default.aspx

=>  Select the CPU in the laptop you're considering (probably a "Core 2 Duo Mobile Processor"  or  "Core 2 Quad Mobile Processor"  and look at the specifications for the CPU.   You need to have "Intel Virtualization Technology"  listed under the Supported Features.

(2)  Get 4GB of memory in your laptop -- you need plenty of memory for the virtual machine.   If you don't have enough memory to allocate what is assigned for the VM, you'll encounter excessive paging when running the virtual machine -- this will REALLY slow it down ... with or without hardware virtualization support.

Note:  An E6400 DOES have hardware virtualization support;  so you may have simply not had enough memory in your system ... or you may have had hardware virtualization disabled in the virtual machine.

The E6400 I have was in a dell optiplex 745 and I called Dell to complain.  They admitted that VT was not a BIOS option.  That computer should be very fast.  It cranks at photoshop and video editing.

So the issue isn't the chip but whether or not VT is supported in the BIOS.  Plus I don't know the difference between the AMD and Intel chips with regard to this.  You gave me an Intel link, what about AMD???

Even if the chip is supported I need to know which laptop BIOS specifically support VT or whatever will speed up VMW.

thanks,

-gsgi

Oh, wait, the desktop I refer to is a E4400 or E 4200 not E6400.  But it does have 7200 rpm drive and 4gb.

-gsgi

I called HP and they said that the elite books support it.  They start about $1000.

Thanks,
gsgi