Running VMs on MBP 15" 2016?

[dyn]

My point exactly, the CPU is perfectly capable of doing it, if it can't then it usually is something in the software or some setting.

 

[TheOkeland]

My point exactly, the CPU is perfectly capable of doing it, if it can't then it usually is something in the software or some setting.

I don't think so, in my opinion this is caused by some Hardware components. Because I see this worse performance while running windows without any VMs too. The combination of Touchscreen, Fingerprint-Sensor and the well meant, but poorly performing Business-components are creating unnecessary CPU-usage. Running Ubuntu with most of this disabled or unused, the performance is better, but still it runs like there is a handbrake...
Benchmarking the systems comes to the conclusion that an iPhone has more CPU performance both single and multi-core.

Till now I was not able to identify the cause of this bad performance. I only can imagine, that Lenovo has limited the TDP or something else like that. Opening a Webbrowser causes 100% CPU-usage on an idle system...
Not what you would expect on a properly running system.
The MacBook Pro (early 2011) I am writing on at the moment, performs better than the ThinkPad
(early 2011 13" base model)

 

[dyn]

I meant the performance of the guest OS, not the host OS. Although this does also somewhat apply to the host OS (I've seen drivers and software do silly things to an OS).

 

[mcomp112]

If you use Fusion, you have option to start with integrated graphics...no idea with overall power consumption...

Are you sure about that? Just wanted to confirm since Windows is supposed to force discrete graphics on Mac hardware.

 

[dyn]

He's sure because it is in the official documentation: VMware Fusion 7 Documentation Center - Discrete Graphics Management.