I shall purchase a powerful laptop someday. What operating system should I install on it if I wish to install several OSs on it and run them as virtual machines?

Should I use virtual machines (allows me to simultaneously run all the OS) or install them as dual-boot or whatever? What are the advantages and disadvantages of doing that kind of thing?

Btw, what is the most powerful laptop I could get for around $3000?

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I shall purchase a powerful laptop someday. What operating system should I install on it if I wish to install several OSs on it and run them as virtual machines? 

Should I use virtual machines (allows me to simultaneously run all the OS) or install them as dual-boot or whatever? What are the advantages and disadvantages of doing that kind of thing?

Btw, what is the most powerful laptop I could get for around $3000?

anonymous · Answer

i am also interested in dual-booting vs virtual boxing

and it's impossible to answer what is most powerful laptop, you need to say for what you are going to use it and etc

rsmith6559 · Answer

And next week, this week's most powerful will be the second most powerful!

Just to confuse the issue more for you:  how about a desktop and a moderate laptop that you can ssh into the desktop and display with X-Windows?

anonymous · Answer

lol

anonymous · Answer

i think  using virtual machine is better than dual-boot because using dual-boot if you want to switch to other OS you should have to restart your laptop again and then select other OS
.its good to install several OS at a time e.g you can use internet on linux instead of windows because it is more secure.