Re: [DUG-Offtopic] new PC

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:27:27 -0700

I used to uses virtual PC but found VMware a little better. However I like the "drag and drop" out of the box with virtual pc.

I guess I am just thinking its a bit of overkill to install Vista JUST to get good use of the memory which is whay I was looking at linux as its a bit more light weight......agh...I dont know :-(

Jeremy

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Subject: Re: [DUG-Offtopic] new PC
From: Robert martin <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, March 30, 2009 8:11 am
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List
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Hi

Since you are doing most of your work in Windows I would use that as the host so you get the best performance.  We use Virtual PC here and OS in those sessions only get access to 1 CPU and are not as fast as the main OS.  I would install Windows Vista and develop in it as it uses RAM and extra CPUs much better than XP.  Run Linux in a virtual machine if you need to. 

I believe Intel CPUs are offering the most 'bang' at the moment.  Widows 7 should be out soon also, apparently the performance is much improved over any other recent Windows.  So it might be work waiting for that?

Cheers
Rob
 


Jeremy Coulter wrote:
HI all.
I am about ready to finally replace me 3GHz HT machine !  Its been a good old work horse, but its getting on now and needs a complete rebuild, but I figure I might as well build a new machine.
 
What are people using these days?
 
I am thinking I might run a thin linux install with VMWare for Vista and XP.
My reason for this was that I am thinking of putting res. amount of RAM in, maybe 8GB so my VM's would run res. speedy and thought Linux and vmware might let me utilise this amount of RAM better.
However, I am also aware that Vista would be able to use this much ram too so I could still use Vista and VMware for XP.
I would still prodomintaly use XP for development etc rather than Vista as most of our client have XP and we have sorted out our Vista issues so I dont need to run it day to day.
 
I will use SATA Raid, thats a given, but what about CPUs?
Should I go for a quad core or a dual core?
 
I have kinda been out of the hardware side of things for about 1.5 years now and have not really kept up.....to my shame ;-)
 
Thanks, Jeremy

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