Re: PPT Files become unmanageable and too slow when reused and sav
- From: Steve Rindsberg <abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:08:40 EDT
In article <6A8F37EC-6F74-4D15-A553-458F16DA9561@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Anemone wrote:
That's *fantastic,* Steve! Will it run as smoothly as it would if installed
on my main hard drive?
My personal experience, based mostly on VMWare:
No. It won't be as quick and since the "hardware" is emulated, you won't have the
video speed/features of native hardware.
But it's not half bad. For example, I have an XP virtual machine running on a 2ghz
laptop with 2 gb of memory; half that is devoted to the virtual machine. In that,
I've installed Office 2007 and a few utilities, not much else.
Office runs there about as fast as it feels on a 1 or 1.5ghz laptop with 1gb of ram,
other than the video speed.
It's perfectly acceptable for development work and for testing and even less
demanding presentations.
The sweet thing is that you can have one version of Office in the "real" computer
and another in the virtual computer and swap back and forth at will, copy files back
and forth and so on. VERY useful.
I actually have access to a client's server for work
on their 2007 documents, but I don't feel like I'm playing fair to use it for
other clients (to say nothing of confidentiality issues); it works okay, but
because it's a remote server it's a little slow and ragged around the edges.
Ah. On any kind of decent hardware, a VM should pound the remote server into the
dirt for speed. I suspect you'll love it.
Try the free Virtual PC if it's still available then if you like the whole concept,
look into VMWare if you need something a little more powerful/versatile.
"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:
In article <45D6E2B5-C30D-4B3E-92EF-D36DF6AED9B8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Anemone wrote:
I can't offer a solution, but I can offer sympathy. I have one holdout client
who is partially on 2003, partially on 2007 and -- just to add salt to the
wound -- partially on a Mac. I have 2007 and am running it on my laptop, but
I'm reluctant to upgrade while a valued client isn't up to speed yet. I don't
suppose there's any way to load both on the same computer (without partition)
-- ???
If your computer's of reasonably decent spec, yep.
You use virtual machines.
Using Virtual PC / VMWare virtual computers
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