Hi Scott
To run Vista comfortably you need to allocate at least 2gb of ram to
the VMWare image. You'll need an extra 2 gb for running Vista, but not
for XP. You can safely allocate 1gb to your xp machine, or even 512mb,
and have nice performance. Vista is a resource hog, that's true no
matter how you run it. Supposedly this won't be true for Windows 7,
I'll find out when Microsoft releases the beta to the public, which
should be any time now :).
On Jan 9, 2009, at 20:54, Scott Ford wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have the mac book pro 15 with 2gb of memory. I find that the
proformance to be great. That is untill I try to run Vista in vm
fusion. The system works just a little laggy. I wonder if I added
another 2gb of memory, if this would clear this up. I am waiting
for my xp pro cd to install that to see if I can use that without
the lag.
Scott
On Jan 9, 2009, at 10:45 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
interesting, I use windows through bootcamp on a similar system and
it slows to a crawl. Large sites in safari are almost unmanageable
and I could site other instances where the processor overtaxes. On
my macbookpro core2 duo on the other hand, I have found little to
nothing that even slows it down but I don't run windows on it.
I do love my macbook though so small, light and fast.
On Jan 8, 2009, at 11:53 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Good evening Alex,
I've been using a 1.2ghz Core Duo (2mb L2 cache) on a 533mhz bus
for a year and a half, the 2.0ghz Core 2 Duo on a 1066mhz bus will
be a nice change.
Other than virtualization there is nothing that I do that comes
close to taking advantage of my current processor, let alone the
new one.
Thanks,
Everett
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Subject: Re: Ordered a MacBook Aluminum
Hi,
The proccessor is less than the pre Novemeber 2007 ones.
Thanks,
Alex,
On 8-Jan-09, at 12:35 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Hey,
I decided to order the MacBook Aluminum last night 2.0ghz, 4gb,
160gb.
It will be interesting to see the difference in keyboard from
the old MacBook to the new.
Everett
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