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Sweet. MBP. 8GB RAM.

Recently decided to purchase some RAM upgrades for my laptop. It’s not that it wasn’t that fast with 4GB, but when using a 2GB RAM windows 7 VM (VMware Fusion), things started to slow down. I still need to use windows in a VM for software applications like QuickBooks, and to access the KVM switch […]

update to windows 7 benchmarks

Well this is quite odd… after overclocking, the windows experience rating actually went DOWN. Another weird thing was that cinebench stopped being able to work… I removed all of the partitions, and I’m doing a clean install of Windows 7 to see if that fixes the issue. There is no reason why I should be […]

Windows 7 slower than Vista?

Well I’ve been working on my article for Windows 7 x64 vs Vista x64 on my new Quad-Core budget PC that I built for some home gaming, and I just started doing the benchmarks for Windows 7 in overclocked form. I must say… I’m extremely surprised that I’m not seeing the same results that everyone […]

Just finished my HOWTO on Windows 7

Check out the article I just finished… It’s a HOWTO on installing and configuring Windows 7 x64 in VMWare Fusion, which is VMWare’s workstation product for Mac OS X. http://mikecentola.com/articles/howto-install-windows-7-x64-beta-in-vmware-fusion/ I’ve had it running on my 8-Core Mac Pro for a little while now 🙂