Hi, I'll never find out why some people think it's slow. For me, it's actually blazingly fast, even though I'm only letting my Windows 7 and WIndows XP machines utilize 512MB of memory. Yes, I'm crazy, I know. But really, after a few minutes after they get some time to settle down, everything works great. I think that's the key.
Regards, Nic On May 12, 2010, at 11:26 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Main issues I've had with VMware is RAM and disk speed. I'm just running XP > so with 1GB RAM given to XP out of 3GB on my Macbook it's fairly reasonable > performance. Fusion 3 should be even faster than Fusion 2, depending on what > you're doing. VMWare/WindowsXP does pound my hard drive for a few minutes > after booting up or resuming from sleep. Not sure what the culprit is but > after a few minutes everything settles down and Jaws seems to be usable. > Parallels (last I checked) was not accessible at all and Virtualbox only > minimally. At least with the command line interface on virtualbox you can do > pretty much anything the GUI can (and some things the GUI can't - like > compress disk images). > > CB > > Simon Fogarty wrote: >> >> Except it is bloody slow. >> >> I am getting sick of it and it's speed issues. >> Infact, Virtual box is a lot better for speed it just lacks on >> accessibility. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch >> Sent: Wednesday, 12 May 2010 6:15 a.m. >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Emulators for other OS's on the Mac >> >> I didn't notice a reply to this one. >> >> You'll pay $40 or more to get Parallels so might as well upgrade to Fusion >> 3. It also seems to be the best of the bunch on a number of fronts. >> >> CB >> >> Rob Lambert wrote: >> >>> I had a copy of VMWare Fusion, but wasn't willing to pay the $40 >>> upgrade fee for Version 3. VirtualBox doesn't seem to be working. One >>> quick note is that I'm a magnifier user, so I don't have to worry >>> about VoiceOver too much. Does anyone know of a good emulator I could >>> use? I've considered Parallels, but haven't had any experience with >>> it. Also, it should be noted that using VMWare Fusion, I was able to >>> seamlessly use the Macintosh Zoom utility inside of the virtual >>> machine without any problems, so being able to do that on the new one >>> would be a must. -- 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. -- 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.
