Hello
I am using a Dell Latitude E5500 laptop at work. It has Core2DUO CPU P8700 and 4 GBs of DDR2 RAM. The current OS is Win XP SP3 and most of the SIMATIC software are installed.(Step7,WinCC,WinCC Flex,Simatic Net,...) and of course there are many software installed.
The question is we are thinking of upgrading to Win7 since it can give more performance to this hardware but most of the simatic software wont run at Win7 so we should install VMware workstation also and a Win XP in it. I know there are some people here which had already went this way. I am asking their opinion about this issue. Which system will give more performance and which system will be more flexible? I am using a CP5512 PCMCIA card to communicate with Siemens PLCs will this hardware work with VMware win XP without troubling me in the middle of a commisiniong? I am asking you to comment on this issue and tell me the disadv. and adv. you came across.
Looking forward to hearing your comments about this subject.
Thanks everyone.
I am using a Dell Latitude E5500 laptop at work. It has Core2DUO CPU P8700 and 4 GBs of DDR2 RAM. The current OS is Win XP SP3 and most of the SIMATIC software are installed.(Step7,WinCC,WinCC Flex,Simatic Net,...) and of course there are many software installed.
The question is we are thinking of upgrading to Win7 since it can give more performance to this hardware but most of the simatic software wont run at Win7 so we should install VMware workstation also and a Win XP in it. I know there are some people here which had already went this way. I am asking their opinion about this issue. Which system will give more performance and which system will be more flexible? I am using a CP5512 PCMCIA card to communicate with Siemens PLCs will this hardware work with VMware win XP without troubling me in the middle of a commisiniong? I am asking you to comment on this issue and tell me the disadv. and adv. you came across.
Looking forward to hearing your comments about this subject.
Thanks everyone.