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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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