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Re: the dream machine



 I've maxed out my system. 3 gigs of memory and the latest version of 
VMWare. The thing that's striking is that on my macbook, I can't tell 
that vista is running as a client under VMWare, where as under my Fedora 
Core 6 OS, on my desk top, you can cirtainly tell due to the 
sluggishness. ergo... upgrade to dual core? 

Scott Ehrlich wrote: 
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Stephen Adler wrote: 
> 
>> Good point, the problem is, I'm running VMWare with Vista as a guest 
>> and it rather 
>> sluggish. This is compared to my MacBook (dual core) which runs the 
>> same guest just 
>> fine... This is what's pushing me to upgrade. 
>> 
> 
> Are you stuck/required to use Vista?   Why not [continue to] use XP? 
> 
> But, as often works, why not simply max out the memory anyway, as the 
> suggestion eludes to?   It could help.  It certainly couldn't hurt.   
> That is, unless you have maxed it out already (at least to what VMWare 
> will accept). 
> 
> Are you running the latest version of VMWare?  If not, maybe a newer 
> version will offer better performance? 
> 
> Scott 
> 


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