10 BEST LAPTOPS FOR VIRTUALIZATION 2017 | VMWARE & OTHERS

As the technology progressed, so has popularity of the server virtualization and that prompts us to review some of the best laptops for virtualization for 2017. If you are looking for the best laptop for VMware, the best laptop for VirtualBox or the best laptop for any other virtualization platform, we recommend you to read this article completely.

What you should look for in the laptops for virtualization?

To run most labs, you must have a fairly decent processor. Although most companies state 4GB as the minimum RAM, most experts agree that 4GB is nowhere closer. 16GB seems to be more popular but for more complex setups, many experts agree 32GB or 64GB RAM is desirable. Also, having a discrete GPU on your workstation is important. Although not compulsory, it is better if your laptop has SSD or a hybrid drive instead of HDDs.

Although few people manually self upgrade their laptops by adding more RAM, SSD and other hardware but for most people, it is not very convenient. They’d rather buy the best laptop to run VMware workstation or similar virtualization setup that is ready to go right out of the box. That is where we come in. We will review some of the best laptops for virtualization that you can use to run VMware, Parallels, VirtualBox and other similar labs. In the table below, you will find top 10 laptops for virtualization-2017.

Laptop	RAM	CPU	GPU	Storage	Price
Acer Aspire VX 15	16GB	i7	GTX 1070	256GB SSD	INR 67 K
MSI GL62	16GB	i7	GTX 960M	256GB SSD+1TB	INR 87 K
MSI GT73VR Titan Pro	64GB	i7	GTX 1080	1TB SSD+1TB	INR 3 Lakh
ASUS ZenBook Pro	16GB	i7	GTX 960M	512GB SSD	INR 90 K
Dell XPS9560	16GB	i7	GTX 1050	512GB SSD
Lenovo P50	8GB	i7	M1000M	1TB SSD	INR 65 K
Acer Aspire F15	12GB	i7	GTX 950M	128GB SSD+1TB	INR 45 K
MSI WE72	32GB	i7	M2200	512GB SSD	INR 1 Lakh
Alienware AW15R3	16GB	i7	GTX 1070	128GB SSD+1TB
Acer Predator 17	16GB	i7	GTX 1060	256GB SSD+1TB	INR 1.7 Lakh

Best Laptops for Virtualization 2017