anyone ? Win7 compared to WinXP performanace on Vmware Fusion 3 ?

shane blyth

anyone ? Win7 compared to WinXP performanace on Vmware Fusion 3 ?

 

I upgraded to Fusion 3 and installed Windows 7. 

I have been very unimpressed with Logos 4 performance under this setup.

I am considering going back to XP 

Has anyone got any comments or knows if this is going to improve my performance at all ?

What I have been running:

Macbook Pro 2.33ghz 3 gb of ram 1.25gb  allocated to VM, tried both 1 or 2 cpus setup.

Turned off 3D support

System really heats up fast! 

Yends to go pretty slow. not terrible but not impressed as this is not a slow system 

Snow leopard blazes along on this system

Thanks in advance

Michael Kares

Windows 7
system requirements

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If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it
takes:

• 
  1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64)
  processor
  

• 
  1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
  

• 
  16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
  

• 
  DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
  

Here's What You Need to Use Windows XP Professional

•	PC with 300 megahertz or higher processor clock speed recommended; 233 MHz minimum required (single or dual processor system);* Intel Pentium/Celeron family, or AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible processor recommended
•	128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features)
•	1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space*
•	Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor
•	CD-ROM or DVD drive
•	Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device   You hardly have enough ram allocated to Windows 7, go xp.  Should improve performance   Blessings, Michael Kares