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VMWare
Well, lets concentrate on this product.
The price:
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The price CURRENTLY is 300$, but as much as I heard, for students it
will cost 100$.
You should also remember that this is the first product which is not SO
very revolutionary. Insignia & connectix did it before on other
processors, and if they see the VMWare got some market - they'll jump in.
Just like Xi Graphics (Accelerated X) vs Metro, so the price will go
really fast down.. (anyone remember that Accel-X for laptop used to cost
400-500$?)
Performance:
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For most Linux users who have been using their P200 and less powerfull
processor, this program is worthless.
You should also MUST have at least 96MB RAM (and yes, I tried it with my
PII 350 with 64MB with KDE - it was sllllooooww. I tried it with fvwm only
and it was faster)
Problems:
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Although the program runs nicely, it got troubles with Hebrew. If you use
the VGA screen driver (NOT the one the VMWare gives you), then you can
switch to full screen (thanks to DGA 1.1), or a windowed screen, BUT once
you'll install their VMWARE-tools and use their SVGA driver, then you
won't see the text on the menus (I tried it with Windows 98 Enabled). One
other effect with their SVGA driver is that when you switch to full
screen, you'll see your screen in the center with 640x480, NOT your full
screen windows, so basically Israeli users of win 98 are a bit "stuck" in
the middle with their SVGA driver and cannot use full colours. Ofcourse if
you intend to use Word only - then you don't have any problem at all..
Any comments? mail me privately.
Hetz
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| Hetz Ben Hamo |
| Promoting the Linux OS |
| hetz@dream.co.il |
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