[AccessD] Windows can be so much fun

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.
>>
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