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Originally Posted by Keywork You're blowing this completely out of proportion. I took a similar class about a year ago, and I had no problem running an AD forest and some client VM's on a core 2 duo, 4GB HP Elitebook. You don't need to give every VM 1GB of ram. One thing to point out when booting domain controllers is that they DO TAKE FOREVER to come up regardless of hardware. |
AFAIK Windows 7 does not install with anything less than 1GB, unless you do some hacks.
To be honest, I would just build a quad-core (AMD or Intel) desktop with 24-32GB of RAM, maybe a pair of SSD's in RAID0, and run Hyper-V/ESXi on it. Setup a VPN or use one of those free remote access services, and just connect to it from school on whatever laptop you have. I'm guessing it would cost you about the same as an i7 laptop with 16GB of RAM.