[01:26] <sugar-959c> downloaded and imported USR-i386-20100922 appliance
[01:26] <sugar-959c> Virtualbox on MacBook Air
[01:32] <Quozl> satellit_: a USR appliance might be interesting to GrannieB ... probably a lot simpler for her.
[01:33] <satellit_> I have this one listed on the wiki
[01:33] <satellit_> DL from Tgillard
[01:34] <satellit_> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files#VirtualBox  lists it
[01:38] <satellit_> Quozl: I am amazed at how well this MacBook Air works with Virtualbox. It is quite fast...have soas-2,3,fedora-14 i686 live Desktop with yum groupinstall sugar-desktop ; all work great
[01:39] <satellit_> plus Ubuntu 10.10 and USR 922
[01:39] <Quozl> satellit_: the newer drives have a lower access latency; that's most of the cause that i've been able to figure out.
[01:39] <satellit_> this is a solid stated drive
[01:39] <satellit_> s/state
[01:39] <satellit_> no ata HD
[01:40] <Quozl> that's exactly my point.  a solid state drive typically has a very low read latency.  it doesn't need to wait for the platter to spin around under the heads like a optomagnetic drive does.
[01:41] <satellit_> anyway it was a nice surprise for me.... : )
[01:41] <satellit_> boot and shutdown are fast also