jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Nov 5 11:14:46 CDT 2011
No one can know another's budget but (in the US anyway) 8 gigs of ram can be had for $40 on sale, $50 as a normal price. That is a pretty darned cheap upgrade. John W. Colby Colby Consulting Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it On 11/5/2011 10:57 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > I beg to differ. When running VirtualBox or Hyper-V or any similar product > on a 64-bit OS, the more RAM the better. As a semi-retired person, I'm > getting by with a mere 4GB and I run Ubuntu Linux as a VirtualBox VM while > running Windows 7 as the main OS, and it works well even with only 4GB of > RAM. > > My main problem is how to install an instance of Windows XP as a VM inside > VirtualBox. > > On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Mark Simms<marksimms at verizon.net> wrote: > >> There is no question that John's talent for building these high performance >> servers is very valuable. >> However, for most workstations, I think anything beyond a dual core >> processor is a huge waste of CPU Cycles. >> I was at a client site on Friday working with a 3 year old workstation >> running Vista. >> After running a week or so with my poorly tuned AMD "Frankenbuild", even >> that Vista workstation was abjectly S L O W. >> I was shocked ! All of the gaming guys on the forums had been panning MY >> SYSTEM as slow, slow,slow. >> Unless you are building a server, I think anything over 4 gigs RAM is a >> huge >> waste....especially if you've got an SSD. >> >>> Meanwhile, we pensioners subsist with a mere 4 gigs of RAM and a single >>> duo-core processor. I guess JC's in that 1% we're hearing so much about >>> lately LOL. >> >> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >>