Re: New desktop - advice for RDi

Jeff,

SSD most definitely! I finally broke down and put 32Gb of memory on my
machine ( up from 16GB ) and it made a massive difference in performance.
I have an i5 quad with hyper threading. Then again I also use VMware
Workstation quite a bit too, something you don't use, everything else is
about the same.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


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Subject: [PCTECH] New desktop - advice for RDi


All,

I am in the enviable position of getting a new desktop at work (since I'm on
XP).

There is no budget per se, but that does not mean I have carte blanche.
I'm thinking what will be the best bang for the buck. I use green screens,
RDI, Chrome (Google Apps for business), and Firefox, primarily.

It will be Win 7 64-bit. I'm thinking 8gb memory. i3 or i5 processor? i3
is dual-core with hyperthreading. i5 is quad-core without hyperthreading.

What about SSD instead of a hard drive? Anybody have experience here?

Thanks.

--
Jeff Crosby