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PowerBook G4 Project

Carrot Time

Carrot Time

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Goftrey said:
I find pretty much all PowerBooks lag a little - even my 1.67 with the 128mb 9700 struggled a wee bit. I think it's probably more down to the CPU than the GPU. If you download Menumeters you'll be able to see the CPU rocket up while navigating around the dock.
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Haha, I downloaded it, and yes, it turns out that I just had too much running :/ the dock just lags in general especially on 3D, oh well, I guess I'll just have to wait for my RAM to come.
 
Carrot Time

Carrot Time

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eyoungren said:
Just be prepared for all that wonderful speed to come to a screeching slow down. XP is miserably slow on VPC and Win7 is intolerably slow (yeah, I got Win7 to install). Vista might make you want to pound your head against something.

But if you do install Vista, be aware that VPC has BIOS. There's a switch that needs to be changed in the BIOS or the system may not run or allow you to install.
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Ugh, you are totally correct. XP is almost unusable, even though I have one of the top G4 systems made, the emulation is unusable and absolute junk!
 
eyoungren

eyoungren

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Carrot Time said:
Ugh, you are totally correct. XP is almost unusable, even though I have one of the top G4 systems made, the emulation is unusable and absolute junk!
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Yeah, I tend to close every app (including menubar items and background processes) before I run VPC, just to give it as much RAM/CPU as I can. It's just impossible to use for anything more than casual use. You can also turn off all the XP eye candy, but it's only a marginal improvement.

There's also the Q emulator, but it's pretty much the same thing without the stability of the VPC app itself.
 
PowerPCMacMan

PowerPCMacMan

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There is also iEmulator as well, which is a copy cat of Q.

eyoungren said:
Yeah, I tend to close every app (including menubar items and background processes) before I run VPC, just to give it as much RAM/CPU as I can. It's just impossible to use for anything more than casual use. You can also turn off all the XP eye candy, but it's only a marginal improvement.

There's also the Q emulator, but it's pretty much the same thing without the stability of the VPC app itself.
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Carrot Time

Carrot Time

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Feb 18, 2013
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February 22, 2013

- Installed iLife '08, even got iMovie working :)
- Uninstalled VP7, the program sucked :rolleyes:
- Otherwise, not much new news, Leopard has been working well, and upgrades should be here in a week or so :)
 
lucasfer899

lucasfer899

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Sep 23, 2012
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Carrot Time said:
February 22, 2013

- Installed iLife '08, even got iMovie working :)
- Uninstalled VP7, the program sucked :rolleyes:
- Otherwise, not much new news, Leopard has been working well, and upgrades should be here in a week or so :)
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Congratulations on such a wonderful machine<3 ;)
 
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boneskid1

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Ah that is a let down but you should get a little better battery life, I have the hi res and it is pretty good looking. I am thinking about getting rid of it though as it never gets used. If you want the link to the sata adapter I used that fit the sata in with minimal hacking to the drive bay lmk it works great and sort of freshens up such an older device
 
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