
| From: William Witteman via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | I am poking around in Android development, and I have run into a snag | as my machine is pretty old, and doesn't have, or doesn't have | enabled, some virtual machine features. Specifically: | | > To use VM acceleration on Linux, your computer must also meet these requirements: | > | > For Intel processors: Support for Virtualization Technology (VT-x), Intel EM64T (Intel 64) | > features, and Execute Disable (XD) Bit functionality enabled. | > For AMD processors: Support for AMD Virtualization (AMD-V). | | I am not at all sure that my machine will do this - Apparently this half of your message was a throw-away, and we were supposed to ignore it. Odd. | if I was looking | for a new machine, are there any caveats, warnings, red flags to watch | for? I'd prefer not to have to spend a ton of time/money thinking | about my hardware - I'd like it to run Debian with as little messing | about as possible. Only you know what features you would find useful. You haven't answered previous questions so I won't ask you to explain what you want. I'm guessing that you don't really want to get your hands dirty. If so, I suggest you pick a laptop. Me? I still like desktops. - expandable / upgradability (within limits) - faster - more RAM, HDD space Clearly your choices would be different from mine. If you care about my thoughts, from two years ago: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-mCQphZBuI> A really good notebook is getting to be about $2k -- wow. You can find useful ones at about $400-$600. For Linux, I think that it is a good idea to avoid NVidia GPUs. Intel ones (built into their CPUs) are fine for what I do. Avoid notebooks with no RAM sockets. You might want to add RAM.