Vista - Performance on Laptop

I bought an HP Pavilion dv7 1175nr pretty much for the sole purpose of
setting up a demo SharePoint server on a VPC I can show to potential clients.
Unfortunately the performance is absolutely hideous.
I read a comment from someone that this is to be expected with the exception
of an XPS laptop.
Is this a reasonable assessment and why would an XPS laptop be better at
running VPC?

Performance should okay on a laptop, though there are some limitations
like disk speed and power management that get in the way.

Make sure you have the additions installed in the VM.

And do this if performance is still slow:
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy...n-laptops.aspx

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Bob Comer





On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:14:01 -0800, Jerry Langley III
<JerryLangleyIII@xxxxxx> wrote:

Jerry Langley III <JerryLangleyIII@xxxxxx> wrote:
What is an XPS laptop? A different brand? What's the difference
between a DV7 etc and an XPS.

How much RAM in the current laptop and how much is setup for the guest
OS? That's the first thing I'd be looking at. You'd likely need 2
Gb and 3 Gb would be better especially given how cheap RAM is these
days.

Tony
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Tony,

I had 4GB of ram on the laptop and dedicated 1GB to the VPC. I wish I had a
link to the post I read about the XPS Laptop. It appears to be a Dell brand.
I wouldn't know why the performance would be any different, but the sited
poster said that it was.
Anyway I have returned the offending machine to Best Buy. If I can't get my
work done with it then it is just an expensive paperweight.

"Tony Toews [MVP]" wrote:

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:57:34 -0700, "Tony Toews [MVP]"
<ttoews@xxxxxx> wrote:
ASAIK XPS is a range of *stationary* Dell PC:s.

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)

>ASAIK XPS is a range of *stationary* Dell PC:s.

There's actually a laptop line with the XPS logo too -- they're
supposed to be performance oriented, and they cost more.

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Bob Comer


On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:03:17 +0100, Bo Berglund <boberglund@xxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:53:00 -0800, Jerry Langley III
<JerryLangleyIII@xxxxxx> wrote:
You can use more than an XPS, I've used VPC since 2001, before there
was even an XPS line of laptops.

I've run VPC on 1.0GHz P3 and 1.8GHz P4M laptops back when I worked
for Connectix demoing VPC. External drives make the difference.

What you need to consider:
1. CPU--power savings, speedstep, et.al. This will be a huge impace
on performance if power savings kicks in.
2. Disk--you want at least a 7200rpm disk if you're going to try and
run a VM on the same hard drive as the host. Ideally, you get an
external USB/Firewire/eSATA drive and run your VMs off that . Disk
contention on 4200 and 5400 rpms with multiple OSes will cause a
significant perf it.

I've used a Toshiba M400 core duo with success for years also. Best
improvement is to get the fastest HD you can.

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Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
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