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Guidelines on purchasing a new laptop

Recently a friend asked me for advice on purchasing a new laptop. Here is the bulk of the email I sent him - perhaps you'll find it useful as you search for a new computer: There is a lot of stuff on the market and here are some basic, ground rules for what you need to think about when your purchasing: set a budget figure for the new machine and stick to it. I usually drop at least $200 below my actual budget so I can include a new laptop bag or some sort of accessory (I love gadgets!) Decide how big you want the laptop to be - i.e. are you travelling? If so, then a 17" notebook is going to be very heavy and cumbersome and you'll hate dragging it through the airport all the time. Are you doing complex work with a lot of information on it? If son, then an 11" notebook will probably be too small. Usually I suggest an 13" or if you are doing a lot of complex work, then a 15" is probably acceptable - although these can be heavy Are you more comfortable

Hyper-V copy/paste of Virtual Machine folder security problems

Have you seen this in your error logs?: The Virtual Machines configuration 6ED5794F-DD19-46D3-8121-0880FEB592AE at 'D:\Hyper-V VM Data\ VM NAME ' is no longer accessible: General access denied error (0x80070005). With Event ID: 4096 and much sadness because your VMs won't boot? And did you move the folders that your VMs are living in to a new location but it should just work?! Well the chances are the security permissions on the files are wrong. I'm not talking about "Administrators" having all rights, but specific Virtual Machine rights. I recently upgraded my home server with a new array of disks - a jump from 500GB of storage to 2TB. It's a modest increase, but this is a hyper-v server, not a NAS. I copied off the VMs from the old disk to an external drive and then copied them back. Oh noes! Two of my virtual Linux servers declined to start again - bastards! So it was to the inter webs, and here, gentle reader, I hope you can find answers. If