Hi Kwan, re: > Here is a screen capture of the Task Manager. It appears to indicate only > dual core. Thanks. Aside: I think that the Windows 7 Task Manager displays are much easier to interpret than Windows 8.x. re: > I can give the IDV performance test a try. How well the IDV runs should give us a benchmark measure that can be used to judge whether or not a VM will run well. At the same time, I can tell you that my first experience with running a virtual machine under VMware Player was on my Acer Aspire One netbook that was (and still is) running 32-bit Windows XP. My Aspire One has one of the first Atom processors and only 1.5 GB of RAM. The fact that I could run McIDAS-X and the LDM inside of my Fedora 9, 11 and 13 virtual machines on my netbook should indicate that you should be able to do the same on your laptop. Your experience may not be as good as mine on my current Dell Studio 1458 laptop (I7, 8 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, 2 GB ATI graphics), but it should be workable. And, if you are thinking of upgrading to a new laptop, your experience should be as good or better than mine. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: JAV-781741 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed
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