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by munin 5356 days ago
> how many people actually run a process that large on a notebook?

my primary computer is a notebook and I routinely run processes that large (vmware, mathematica, matlab, IDA, binnavi, my own programs, etc).

"why do you run these programs on your laptop instead of sshing to a server somewhere?"

sensitivity, responsiveness, I don't always have internet, the hardware can do it (8-16GB of RAM in a notebook is almost commonplace)

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What laptop are you using which supports 16gb of RAM? I'd love a portable computing juggernaut!
Thinkpad w510. I think some of the Mac laptops might. I'm sure some other systems support it.