Ken, Running VMs off a laptop would pretty much immediately put you into the ³more of a power user² camp. I¹m fairly certain VMs are going to be primarily I/O bound unless you¹re trying something truly processor or graphics intensive.
On 5/12/08 6:30 PM, "Ken Schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Readyboost won¹t help you with the significant disk I/O that can occur with > (a) indexing and (b) AV scanning and (c) Outlook PST files. Once the drive is > spinning, I doubt there is much additional power draw I suspect that there > isn¹t that much drag. The main power draw in laptops these days (as I > understand it) are screens and GPUs. > > Maybe I¹m more of a power user, but I can physically see the difference in > running VMs off a 5400 RPM drive vs. A 7200 RPM drive (identically configured > Dell Latitude D830s with a couple of VMs on the modular bay drive). The 5400 > RPM drives are slower to start the VMs, and when running through a set of test > cases take longer to complete (you can see this just by watching the two > machines side by side). > > Cheers > Ken > > > > From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10:24 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Why XP is doomed > > My rule(s) of thumb for minimum RAM to get the job done: > > Light/casual user: XP 512MB Vista 1GB > Average user: XP 1GB Vista 2GB > Power user: XP 2GB Vista 3+ GB > > Myself, 90% of the time I¹m only an average user. Vista @ 2GB is just fine. > And I don't notice much drag for 5400 rpm drives in the laptop either. That > can happen when half of the 2GB RAM is given to cache. I suspect I could > reduce disk dependency further with a ReadyBoost drive, much lower power than > the watts needed for 7200 vs. 5400. > > Carl > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 4:00 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Why XP is doomed > > Really ... I have a Pentium D, 3GHz, 2M RAM. You think if I bumped the RAM to > 4G that Vista would be OK with it? I mostly use this PC for photoediting > (Photoshop CS3), and video editing (which in my case is converting PAL to > NTSC, or making a DVD out of AVI files, using Nero 7). > > Feel free to reply offlist .... > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > Salvador Manzo [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089 e. [EMAIL > PROTECTED] ] > Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter > University of Southern California > 818-612-5112 > In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand > like a rock. Thomas Jefferson ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
