Re: [clug-talk] Gigabyte Brix Model I5 vs I3 or I7

2013-09-23 Thread Andrew Robinson
Hello, All of the Intel I series processor will support basic virtualization with something like virtual box. If you need more capabilities I would recommend checking out the features of each processor at ark.intel.com. You would be looking for features such as VT-d and VT-x, and it will depe

Re: [clug-talk] Gigabyte Brix Model I5 vs I3 or I7

2013-09-23 Thread Gustin Johnson
First SATA still smokes USB2 and USB3 in performance. There have also been weird performance issues (there have been driver, cable, and RF noise issues). I would still not consider USB 3 mature enough yet despite it's age. Also onboard SATA means that the storage is internal and thus you have on

[clug-talk] Dual Install

2013-09-23 Thread Joe Shuttleworth
I have a laptop with Windows 7 installed and would like to install Linux with it. I have the following partitions: 15G recovery partition 100M system partition 625G C: All these are ntfs filesystems and primary partitions >From what I understand I need to shrink the C: and install Linux in extra

Re: [clug-talk] Dual Install

2013-09-23 Thread TekBudda
I did something similar with a laptop I bought a year or so ago. Using Windows 7 & Kubuntu. I don't believe I touched the recovery partitions or anything like that. Everything went pretty smoothly actually until I tried to view my partitions in Windows & they disappeared. I did lose some data b