Try partitioning your disc and installing ubuntu on a separate partition. Vista is slow on everything. If you need windows, install 7. If you do well with opensource software, ubuntu+apt is all you need. If you are considering switching your laptop and need something that just works, buy a mac.
2010/9/11 Jeff Greenberg <[email protected]>: > I'm curious to hear what others are using as a development platform. I'm > dying a slooooooow motion death on mine. I have a 2GHz dual-core laptop with > 3Gb of memory running Vista. I decided I wanted to develop on Linux, so I'm > running Vbox with Ubuntu 10.4 as the guest, with 1.5Gb of memory and 50Gb of > disk (only using about 8) alloted to it. > > > As I type this message, the letters appear a second or two after I've typed > them (thankfully I'm a touch typer and it buffers). Don't even ask about > running update.php or bringing up the modules page...several minutes each. > In looking at the resource monitor, it's not memory (no paging is going on) > but the CPU is pegged. All I have running is firefox, chrome and thunderbird > at the moment. Jedit, which is much lighter than JavaBeans, etc., runs > painfully slow too. > > > So...ANY ideas (short of tossing the laptop and buying a real workstation) > would be greatly appreciated! > > > Jeff > >
