Re: 7 vs 8.1

[Kari Eveli lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

Bill and Jordan,

I very much agree with Jordan. For doing effortless virtualizing, you
generally need at least 8 GB of RAM, an SSD and a fast processor. To do
safe browsing you can set up an operating system and a browser yourself
or use a ready-made virtual appliance. The following solution needs
relatively few resources as it is based on Linux. You only need to
install VMWare Player and this download to do safe browsing with Firefox
and optional Flash.


Overview:
https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/products/browser-appliance#.VccOHPnuo7E

Download: http://browser.shell.tor.hu/
Support for this at:
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/266213?start=0&tstart=0


Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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8.8.2015, 20:03, J R FOX wrote:
> I really don't want to disagree with Kari, who provides us with so
> much good info here, but my take is that it depends. You might need
> an unusually powerful laptop to do a VM well. VMs do impose enough of
> an overhead to noticeably degrade performance. Routine operations
> will slow down. The rule of thumb for avoiding or minimizing this
> used to be at least 8 Gigs of RAM and a fast processor. (A 5400 speed
> HDD on a laptop won't cut it, either.) However, I'm hearing that some
> of today's laptops have gone over to SSDs, rather than the older style
> laptop hardrives ? That should help. If your laptop is not up to the
> challenge, Win 8.1 might indeed be the more appropriate answer **for
> you. **
>
>
>   Jordan