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On May 21, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Cliff Wells wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 11:52 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: |
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>> I have not used it though I plan on getting the OS X version once my |
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>> Mac Mini arrives... |
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> I have doubts about the performance of a VM on that hardware. I've |
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> got |
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> a mini and it's not fast (at least running Linux). Usable for |
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> general-purpose stuff but it feels pretty sluggish if I ask it to do |
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> anything heavy. I don't know any benchmarks, but if I had to give |
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> you a |
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> "feel" describing it, I'd put it on par with a 1GHz PIII with a slow |
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> drive and not *quite* enough memory. In short, it's great for doing |
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> testing on or just day-to-day stuff, but I think running a VM may |
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> be out |
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> of its league. |
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On a 1.66ghz Core Duo Intel Mac Mini? Or are you talking the 1.42ghz |
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single CPU G4 Mac Mini, the older Mini? The Intel Core Duo is a |
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worthy chip. |
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Obviously I am going to hike the memory up. Lots of people have |
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already given a thumbs up to Parallels in a Core Duo mini with extra |
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RAM added for normal non-gaming use. I just need to run Windows for |
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tax SW, testing web pages in IE, etc. My old Athlon box is starting |
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to develop some disk issues and is old and cranky :-) |
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Chad |
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> If you can, replace the disk with a 5400RPM drive which will help a |
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> lot. |
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> Regards, |
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> Cliff |
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Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC |
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Your Web App and Email hosting provider |
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chad at shire.net |
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