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Newbie questions - Vista and memory
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<blockquote data-quote="Zoolook" data-source="post: 366767" data-attributes="member: 21101"><p>The debate about Vista's memory needs is all very well, but in context of the original question, it is fair to say Vista is memory hungry and will probably run slowly if used within Parallels. Most people running Parallels are not going to give up 2GB of RAM for the guest operating system.</p><p></p><p>XP requires less memory, end of story. If your XP installation used 30% of a 2GB install, that's a lot. A clean XP installation with no themes, should use less around 100MB idle - I run my parallels install with 300MB of RAM dedicated to the guest OS. There is no way I could do that with Vista.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zoolook, post: 366767, member: 21101"] The debate about Vista's memory needs is all very well, but in context of the original question, it is fair to say Vista is memory hungry and will probably run slowly if used within Parallels. Most people running Parallels are not going to give up 2GB of RAM for the guest operating system. XP requires less memory, end of story. If your XP installation used 30% of a 2GB install, that's a lot. A clean XP installation with no themes, should use less around 100MB idle - I run my parallels install with 300MB of RAM dedicated to the guest OS. There is no way I could do that with Vista. [/QUOTE]
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