Jeremy to 'play' with linux I used suns Virtualbox under xp, works fine
N > 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 > > -------- Original Message -------- > 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 > <[email protected]> > > 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 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list >> Post: [email protected] >> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic >> Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] >> with Subject: unsubscribe > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic > Unsubscribe: send an email to > [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with > Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe
