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mocman
Sep 8, 2004, 07:30 PM
I ordered my New PowerMac G5 today and I was needing to know what you guys are using to use win software on mac. I heard about Virtual Pc. Is that the best out there or not. Please list......Thanks


zelmo
Sep 8, 2004, 08:04 PM
I ordered my New PowerMac G5 today and I was needing to know what you guys are using to use win software on mac. I heard about Virtual Pc. Is that the best out there or not. Please list......Thanks

What PC software are you looking to run on your Mac? VPC sucks ***** for games, for sure. I think you're better off finding Mac equivalents, unless you're running something for which there is no Mac s/w?
Koree
Sep 8, 2004, 08:13 PM
Really would help if you could tell us what apps your talking about :)
crazzyeddie
Sep 8, 2004, 09:46 PM
Why are there like 10 threads on VPC right now? Surely all these questions have been answered by now... :confused:
svenr
Sep 9, 2004, 03:32 AM
Check the "ibook or centrino" thread at
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=88055
Scroll down about half way, post #13 gives a nice real-world case complete with screenshot.

VPC does not suck, it works fine for me. It's one of those things that you rarely ever use (otherwise you could've bought a Wintel PC in the first place), but you know it's there when you really need it. It's obviously not meant for action games that need a fast machine even when running on a native PC, so you shouldn't judge it on that.
Rainbow66
Sep 9, 2004, 04:59 AM
Why do people buy a $2000 dollar mac and then get VPC???
James L
Sep 9, 2004, 05:27 AM
If your thought is to buy a Mac, but then use all PC software on it then no... you will be very dissapointed. PC software and Mac software are fundamentally different in how they are coded to work with the OS.

If you are buying a Mac to use it AS a Mac, but there is 1 or 2 basic programs you require that are PC only you could get away with using them via virtual PC. The performance of software within VPC is not that of software running native in OSX.

You could run a basic database program, etc in VPC and be happy with it, but not a 3D app or anything at all significant.
Rainbow66
Sep 9, 2004, 05:49 AM
yeah,
but the 3d app would prolly work better on VPC than the mac,
svenr
Sep 9, 2004, 06:00 AM
yeah,
but the 3d app would prolly work better on VPC than the mac,
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BakedBeans
Sep 9, 2004, 06:38 AM
thats me with rainbow out of shot