On Wed, June 27, 2007 4:24 am, Eberhard Roloff wrote: > Kai Ponte wrote: > [...] >>> >>> on a more general note, I doubt that it the best way >>> to run windows. >>> >>> After all it requires much more in regard to hardware resources >>> than a >>> native windows would need. >> >> Actually, I don't think they've come out with a terahertz processor >> yet. AFAIK, that is the minimum requirement to make windows stable. >> :P >> >> >>> You still cannot do anything that windows can do within an >>> emulator. >> >> >> ?? What can't I do? I run office 2007 (with the Excel that no longer >> limits me to 65500 rows), Visual Studio, Visio and my internal >> applications. All seem to work without a decrease in speed when >> compared to my P-IV 3.4 GHz machine sitting right next to the >> laptop. > > So the performance is ok, but either you do not need more performance > than vmware provides or you will get more performance when you run > your > windows "natively" on your hardware.
Yes, I imagine so. However, with Windows, there is no performance. It is always slow - at least in any version since Win2K. After all, XP and it's lack of performance is why I decided to dive head first into Linux. > To find out, try some windows games. They seem to play fine. I loaded Hearts and Freecell. I know that I have my Z-Machine emulator and NESTicle somewhere. Maybe I'll load them up and see how they do. > Furthermore you cannot do isdn > connections, ??? People still have ISDN? I thought that was depricated. > usb is said to be lousy/slowly, No worse than SuSE 9.3 > 10.0. I just tried. > 3D Acceleration is not > useable and more. > Again, vmware is great and you can work with it all day long, but it > surely lacks something against running windows natively. > >> >>> AND, it is quite costly to buy a windows license, and additional >>> windows >>> software licenses for any linux computer that is standing around, >>> just >>> to get in the end, what you had before: >>> >>> A computer that perfectly runs your main windows application(s). >>> ;-)) Well, no - you end up with a computer running Linux. This is vastly more secure and reliable. You then have an emulator running Windows for those times which are needed. Also, I can (and have) backup my VMWare session for future use. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
