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    AspireOne With Vista Running Well :)

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by JoeCHecht, Dec 8, 2008.

  1. JoeCHecht

    JoeCHecht Notebook Consultant

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    I just wanted to report that I tried using the bloatware XP that shippes with the machine, and clean installs of both XP and Vista Ultimate.

    I almost cannot believe that the install with a clean copy of Vista Ultimate seems to run the best, even with only 1.5gb of ram installed.

    I am running VMWare Workstation 6.51. If your are not familiar with VMWare, it allows you to run several Virtual copies of Windows and Linux at the same time on a single computer. You can take snapshots of a virtual Machine's state, mess it up (install a bunch of crappy software or get a bunch of viruses), then snap back to right where you where (before you crapped up the machine). Also, since the virtual computers exist only as disk files, you can move the virtual computers to different computer, and they continue to run, since the virtual hardware does not change.

    The host (The Aspire One) is setup to do nothing but run VMWare Virtual Machines. I can run two or three small VM's at a time with 256mb rams each, or one pretty good size one weighing 768mb very smoothly, and can even run a Vista VM with 1gb of ram with out too much fuss.

    I have 4gb of readyboost (don't know if that helps any).

    Anyway, I love my little Aspire "LittleBit"!

    Joe
     
    JoeCHecht, Dec 8, 2008
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