I was about to post write a longer version of the above, glad I refreshed first!
In short: I use Parrells for Windows VM's and for all my Linux VM's I use Fusion as they have no GUI and it integrates with my VM homelab.
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I was about to post write a longer version of the above, glad I refreshed first!
In short: I use Parrells for Windows VM's and for all my Linux VM's I use Fusion as they have no GUI and it integrates with my VM homelab.
Yes, the 14 day trial will give you full access.
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I use VirtualBox on my Macs, free and seems spot on.
VB is a decent product but if you are using a Windows VM Parallels is worth the money.
I would have thought a 2013 dual core would be pretty slow by modern standards when throwing VM’s it and doing proper work.
Even though you are not capping the cpu utilisation I would expect there is something g bottlenecking it. Integrated GPUs of that era are also ‘not great’.
I would expect you would get a fairly significant performance upgrade if you updated to a 6 core i7. Not only is each core 30-40% faster at the same clock speed you also have 3x as many, they are clocked higher and better at turbo. This is alongside other improvements to cache and virtualisation workloads that come with each generation.
Even though you are not capping the cpu utilisation I would expect there is something g bottlenecking it. Integrated GPUs of that era are also ‘not great’.
I would expect you would get a fairly significant performance upgrade if you updated to a 6 core i7. Not only is each core 30-40% faster at the same clock speed you also have 3x as many, they are clocked higher and better at turbo. This is alongside other improvements to cache and virtualisation workloads that come with each generation.
Apologies I mixed up 13” and 2017
So completely disregard most of the above!
The only thing to consider is the RAM hitting 14gb the system may be paging if you have other apps open. But as other have said it may well be the software.
You may well benefit from extra cores and a proper GPU but not as much as if you were using a 2013 of course. Upgrading would deal with any general choppy ness when multitasking if VMware is using 50% of the entire cpu.
So completely disregard most of the above!
The only thing to consider is the RAM hitting 14gb the system may be paging if you have other apps open. But as other have said it may well be the software.
You may well benefit from extra cores and a proper GPU but not as much as if you were using a 2013 of course. Upgrading would deal with any general choppy ness when multitasking if VMware is using 50% of the entire cpu.
It turns out I had Parallels 7 and 8 licenses so I'll most likely upgrade one of those for the £40 it costs and not go out tonight.
There is an improvement that's for sure, however Parallels has only configured it with 2GB or RAM vs 4GB I had in Fusion so that may be a factor.
I know I need 32GB as I'm doing a lot of multitasking and I'm having to close applications to stop it paging so 32GB is inevitable, but I don't want to buy last years model due to age and also keyboard concerns so I'd rather wait if I can.
There is an improvement that's for sure, however Parallels has only configured it with 2GB or RAM vs 4GB I had in Fusion so that may be a factor.
I know I need 32GB as I'm doing a lot of multitasking and I'm having to close applications to stop it paging so 32GB is inevitable, but I don't want to buy last years model due to age and also keyboard concerns so I'd rather wait if I can.
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Do you think we will see a new design of mbp this year? Rumoured 16” model perhaps with fixed thermals?
Well I decided to upgrade an old Parallels license to the latest version (20% cashback via TCB too!). I much prefer it over VMware Fusion for Windows 10.
I hope so!
I hope so!
Intel have announced their new mobile chips. I can't wait to read reports of overheating when Apple shoehorns it into their woefully undercooled chassis
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/201...nd-a-5ghz-turbo-option-in-a-laptop-processor/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/201...nd-a-5ghz-turbo-option-in-a-laptop-processor/
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Haha gonna be interesting, or apple could surprise us all and move to its own A series chips, these are extremely powerful for their power usage.
I doubt it, the Alienware 17m's are struggling even with much bigger pipes and fans.
I have a late-2013 Macbook Pro and I am waiting this refresh but I will be happy with a nice quad core on Pro 13. If i don't jump this year i will be tempted to wait another year to see if a AMD 7nm CPU/GPU combo arrives in the Macbook Pro.