Re: To Vista or NOT

Jim Davis wrote:
With the advent of vista and D2007, I was planning to run a vista base environment, then have a few virtual machines (VMware6) for the different development environments (D7, D2007, VS2003, VS2005, BCB5, etc).

I've just purchased a dell d820 laptop (core duo, 4gb ram) that came loaded with XP, and have upgraded to vista ultimate.
Vista uses 900mb ram just sitting there - base install !!!

After loading up a few virtual machines, I'm thinking of back-pedaling to XPpro for the base environment.
The Vista/VMware6 combination is slow and hungry. My plan was to be able to run a few virtual machines simultaneously (as the laptop should have the grunt) but this may be a fantasy :((

Any thoughts, experiences, recomendations ?

thanks, Jim



Before you try anything, try sticking a 1 or 2gb Thumbdrive to your laptop. In Vista, there is something call 'ReadyBoost' which if it works, supposed to utilized your thumbdrive memory as your virtual memory instead of having to tax your harddisk. It should in effect speed things up somewhat. If it works, great. If not, well at least you tried.

I think Aero is one big speed and memory killer and I've got that off the system. The other thing is that Vista does "SuperFetch" which caches your regularly used program to speed it up but inevitably it means that it will utilize your RAM in doing so.
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