In addition to more memory, a fast drive helps quite a bit. I had a nice speed boost after upgrading to a high-performance solid-state drive. I'm guessing that, Vista being more bloated than *nix, it might help even more. --mark On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Jeff Greenberg <jeff@ayendesigns.com> wrote:
I agree with John that it's nice to use vbox. Plus, I -must- use Vista occasionally because of Quickbooks (invoicing) being on it, Ubuntu not playing nice with my CD, skype and a few other things. At the office, I have the luxury of using separate boxes I suppose, but not always.
So thus far (thanks all for the replies), it seems that the likely order of my practical options are: stop using firefox, reduce memory to vbox and return more to vista, add memory to the laptop (it will take 1Gb more), try a new VB with either a prepackaged Ubuntu or a completely different flavor of linux.
Jeff