I checked the things running in the background, and they are quite similar. Only thing that runs on the Evo that's not the stationary is the touchpad applet, and some kbd-applet on the stationary. Other than that most, if not all, is identical, including the same AV-software. AFAICT, I am comparing to apples to apples. 8-] A colleaugue of mine mentioned that the Intel P4-M series CPUs might not be very good at multi-tasking, and this may be reason for the performance gap. Any truth here, you think? -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jim Kenzig http://kenzig.com Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 3:01 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: OT: Virtual PC Yes CPU speed makes a huge difference with VM's. And for whatever reason depending on the version of EVO we have found that some of them run a lot slower then they are supposed to for whatever reason. You are also not taking into consideration what else is running on these systems that may take up memory/cpu etc. For example are you using different Antivirus programs or the same on each one. Check your memory/cpu usage prior to run the VM's and make sure you are comparing apples to apples. Jim Sorin Srbu < wrote: Hi all, I cloned a virtual machine (win2k3 sp2) image and ran one on my portable and one on my stationary box. Why would the stationary computer run the virtual machine so much faster? It's actually no difference running a real win2k3 server on real hardware than this virtual machine... Both virtual machines run with the same ram setup (384MB), and so on. Portable: Compaq Evo N800c (Intel P4-M/1,8GHz, 1GB RAM, 7k rpm Hitachi HD). Stationary: OEM (Amd Athlon XP/3000+ (approx 2,2GHz), 1GB RAM, 7k Seagate HD). The stationary does have a faster cpu, about 400MHz more, but should this really make a difference?? Or is it a RAM performance issue? Or something else? BW, Sorin # Sorin Srbu, Systems Engineer Web: http://pharm.orgfarm.uu.se/pc/ # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem, Mobile Phone: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714474 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # # Public PGP key available on request. # # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-m ail # /\ # # Harmless tagline follows: # # There are no stupid questions. Questions don't think. ***************************** New Site from The Kenzig Group! Windows Vista Links, list options and info are available at: http://www.VistaPop.com ***************************** To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm