12-07-2011, 05:20 AM
sekker wrote:
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[quote=sekker]
Put an SSD in it.
Or get the cheapest iMad
It had an SSD in it... wouldn't make a difference in this case. Has a very fast platter drive in it now.
Replace the optical with the built-in hard drive and install an SSD. Use the SSD for the VMware Fusion partition. You will see a significant speed increase running the virtual machine as it'll prevent Fusion from using the hard drive for RAM for windows.
The quality of the SSD will definitely matter when it comes to this kind of speed optimization, too.
But even a first gen i3 iMac will blow that machine away for this application.
Well, for one I need the optical drive. Secondly, I'm not using the VM for much... just two tools that don't use a lot of RAM. VMWare just snagged 1GB of real as that's what's allocated.
Even with a good SSD and multiple drives to spread the data round, I still get the same sort of slowdowns on my tower when it would run out of RAM.