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On 02/02/2009 13:03, Julian Hall wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > >> Okay it won't run Windows 7, at least not on my laptop >> > Do you mean it won't run under VirtualBox or the spec of your laptop? I > tried out the beta of Windows 7 on a test machine (owned by same friend > who showed me the Elonex). We were both very pleasantly surprised - in > fact he said it's the first MS OS he has ever liked at first sight. The > test rig was an AMD Athlon 1.3Ghz / 512Mb RAM with (I think) an Nvidia > 7600, and Windows 7 actually ran only fractionally slower than XP, and > miles faster than Vista which on the same box crawled on hands and knees. > > Kind regards, > > Julian > I'm running Virtualbox on a Core 2 Duo 2GHz with 4GB Ram and 1GB allocated to the virtual machine so I presume it's an issue with VirtualBox. I'm probably going to give it a go on a real machine later on this week. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html