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From: M-M on 19 Jan 2010 23:36
In article <1jcknq0.ju3306yvzxu0N%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>,
mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote:

> > I was counting to the time I could open my first page in Safari. I can
> > see the desktop much sooner but I don't have full functionality ye
>
> I noticed that Internet Explorer opened considerably faster than Safari
> did.


It's not the opening of Safari that took the time, but getting into the
network.

The network icon in the Win7 tray had that little circle spinning around
for way too long.

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From: M-M on 20 Jan 2010 00:06
In article <1jcke3y.4wfy6c1qdb2tcN%nospam(a)see.signature>,
nospam(a)see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote:

> > 2 gigs memory.
>
> That's probably slim for the purpose. You don't mention how much of that
> is dedicated to the VMWare virtual machine. Yes, it matters. Hard to
> imagine you gave VMWare more than 1GB of that (and if you did, OS X
> would probably be pretty cramped).
>
> Windows 7 official system requirements lists 1 GB as the minimum, and
> also lists a bunch of things that make it require more. Looks like 2 GB
> with either 64-bit or XP mode.


I guess that's the problem then. Either upgrade to 4 GB or roll back to
XP. 8 GB costs almost $500 but 4 GB can be had for a bit over $100.

btw, I am running the 32-bit version of Win 7.

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