exactlaly. and th esuddering never went away. it just got worse until jaws would uct out whole words.
See the link to the recording I posted. On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > I haven't played much with Win7, just XP under fusion. Just after booting it > does seem to beat on my hard drive for a few minutes making Jaws stutter, but > that clears up shortly. So if you gave 2GB to Win7, how much is left for OSX? > 2GB? > > CB > > Sarah Alawami wrote: >> >> I tried running 7 u8nder 512 mb of ram and it hurt totally. jaws studered >> and it sounded owful. Here it is under 2 gigs. Sorry about the bad quality. >> I had to plug in another osund card just to here the thing. >> >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1672188/vmware%20fudge%20up.mp3 >> >> I ran 32 gigs and had about 2 gigs left for the ram. the windows run under 2 >> gigs 1 core. I have a dool core processer. Vocie over was still fine. >> On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: >> >> >>> As you discovered VMWare is pretty much the only accessible virtualization >>> package on the mac. Sun's VirtualBox doesn't have an accessible GUI but it >>> does have a command line interface, so it can still be used that way. As >>> far as speed and performance goes, Windows beats on the hard drive a good >>> bit so it can take a while to un-sludge after starting up, especially if >>> your Mac is trying to access the drive at the same time. Also need to check >>> how much RAM you have left. My MacBook has 3GB so if I run 1.5GB for VMWare >>> that only leaves 1.5GB for the Mac. If the Mac runs out it starts doing >>> 'virtual memory' which swaps older chunks of RAM to the hard drive which is >>> orders of magnitude slower than real RAM. So, if your Windows virtual >>> machine pounds the hard drive and you trigger some virtual memory swapping >>> to hard drive you're in for a world of hurt. You might actually be faster >>> with that 512MB virtual machine and not triggering memory swapping. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> Sarah Alawami wrote: >>> >>>> Hello. I decided to try parelells and found it to be inaccessibal with mac >>>> voice over. if it is can someone shead some lite on this? this is driving >>>> me nuts! >>>> >>>> Thaks. >>>> >>>> S >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
