<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> Hey Vince, totally agree and love your enthusiasm for where the art is going. I'm not much into compiling or heavy multimedia (although I've got Metallica's "Some Kind of Monster" DVD running in totem movie player will I type <IMG SRC="cid:1161934620.6919.7.camel@too2.sydwest" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":-)" BORDER="0">), but even one instance of VMWare, evolution, openoffice and a browser running, strains a single CPU system, dual core and better just keep the machine humming along. On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 00:38 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> ruscook <<A HREF="mailto:ruscook_oz@yahoo.com.au">ruscook_oz@yahoo.com.au</A>> wrote: > I'm 1/2way through setting up my new dual core system and it flies!!! > I'm vERY impressed with this. VMware feels damn close to native speed > AND you can do things in the host OS because of the multiple cores. He he... it's nice indeed ! :-) Currently I have a 5 year old 1.5Ghz Athlon XP CPU. Last week my buddy bought a 2.4GHz dual core AMD CPU, and indeed it flies. He uses Mandrake/Mandriva, but I set up VMWare on his machine to show him Edgy, and Edgy runs faster as a guest OS on his machine, than it runs as a host on mine ! :-O :-) </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Yes it feels pretty snappy, although I haven't really measured the performance of other OS under Vmware yet. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> It's nice to fire up "top" and watch the load being dynamically balanced across the two CPU's. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Isn't it! <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> It really demonstrated to me, that dual core CPU's are very beneficial to "normal" desktop computers, not just geek machines. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Yes, I agree 100% with this. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> And Intel is launching 4 core CPU's in a couple weeks... VMware + Compiling something + Playing a big 3D game + recording a TV show with on the fly MPEG encoding + rendering a 3D pic/scene, all at the same time with a 100% responsive desktop... oh, computing is getting more and more fun/useful every year ! :-) </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> 4 Core will be a killer for this stuff - way cool! <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> Kind Regards Russell ================== www.windsorcycles.com.au sales@windsorcycles.com.au ph. 02 4577 3209 bikes.no-ip.info Linux user #369094 ================== </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>