Re: [orca-list] installing linux on the mac

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Andy,

Well, that's more or less a resource issue. I've seen machines where a 
person can run a virtual machine with very little lag, but it was on a 
system with a very fast processor and a lot of ram. The trouble with 
running a virtual machine with Windows 7 being the host operating system 
is that the host requires a huge amount of resources to run, and I've 
found that Windows 7 only works good with a 2 GHZ duel core processor or 
better and no less than 2 GB of ram. So if someone wants to run Linux 
side by side with Windows 7 they need at least a 2 GHZ duel core 
processor and about 4 GB of ram just to get started. Where with 
something like Windows XP you can cut those requirements in half.

Cheers!


On 4/29/2012 9:21 AM, Andy B. wrote:
> Except if you run it on Windows. Then it runs slower than a snail.