atlgc Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 On a Pentium M 760 2GHZ w/2GB RAM, generally, how drastic of a speed difference would I encounter running OS X native versus in VMWare in Windows XP? Thanks in advance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10548-native-or-vmware/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggman Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 Simply put, A LOT! Windows XP is already kinda has a problem with eating processor power for no reason. Now imagine that problem times 1.5. I had VMware for a short while; I never used Mac in it though because I couldn't stand the horrid speed decrease. Even installing Darwin (this was 10.4.1-era ) made Windows's Firefox unstable. You would have it even worse than me because I had a 2.4 GHz processor at the time. I would definitely recommend a native installation, especially if you're planning on using Mac as an everyday OS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10548-native-or-vmware/#findComment-66145 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJägermeister Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 On a Pentium M 760 2GHZ w/2GB RAM, generally, how drastic of a speed difference would I encounter running OS X native versus in VMWare in Windows XP? Thanks in advance! I use a PentiumM 1.6Hz 768MB Ram. OSX86 runs natively on this notebook. VMware is feeling 2-3 times slower, Kqemu+Qemu is feeling 5-6 times slower as the nativ installation. VMware is fast (maybe the fastest emulator/virtualizer), but still far away from native speed on this PC. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10548-native-or-vmware/#findComment-66218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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