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Virtual PC 6

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iMax531

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I'm considering buying VPC 6 Windows 2000 for my Powerbook.

It's a 1ghz G4 with 1GB of RAM... is anyone running this or know about how fast it runs?

x86 equivalent speed?


thanks
 
I'm running the same config you have. VPC 6 runs fine with win2k. I actually bought the cheap version with PCDOS and then installed win2k myself. The last thing I want to do is pay for another windows license.

It's hard to say what the PC equivalent speed would be, since I don't use a real PC very often. I certainly find the performance adequate for what I use it for. It's not going to play PC games very well, but for office apps and such, it's great. I run it with 192 MB of memory and 1024x768 screen size. I've tried 256 MB of memory, but for what I do, it didn't seem to make much difference. I'm generally only running one or two apps at a time.

The network support is great (seamless), and I've accessed USB devices without a problem.

HTH
 
thanks

That sounds great, thank for the response... I'm mostly going to run apps that just don't run on OS X, like a P2P program called soulseek and some other stuff. Sounds like it should work.

thanks
 
Glad to hear that VPC6 runs reasonably well on the 1GHz machine -- I have a 500MHz Rev. A TiBook, and VPC seems to run on geological time...🙁
 
Originally posted by idea_hamster
Glad to hear that VPC6 runs reasonably well on the 1GHz machine -- I have a 500MHz Rev. A TiBook, and VPC seems to run on geological time...🙁
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The L3 cache on the 1 GHz PB helps, as does the upgraded graphics processor. I also noticed a nice performance boost going from VPC 5 to VPC 6.
 
On my dual 800, I'm running XP Home in VPC 6. Running sysmark puts it around a PII 450, but subjectively it does not feel that responsive and feels more sluggish than the wife's PII 366 laptop.
 
Then again XP is a beast. XP requires 128MB of ram to just run, while 2000 only requires 64MB.
 
I'm running Windows 2000 on VPC6 and I have a DP G4 1 Ghz, with 1.25 GB of ram. I've given 512MB of ram to VPC6, but it stills seems sluggish.
If you think its your computer (The mac), its not. Its because VPC just makes it a P2...they should have atleast tried to make it a P3 for VPC6...
 
Originally posted by iEric
I'm running Windows 2000 on VPC6 and I have a DP G4 1 Ghz, with 1.25 GB of ram. I've given 512MB of ram to VPC6, but it stills seems sluggish.
If you think its your computer (The mac), its not. Its because VPC just makes it a P2...they should have atleast tried to make it a P3 for VPC6...
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SSE

those three letters are what is stopping that - and now with a certain **** ** **** ******* corporation at the controls i dont think it will get SSE support. Maybe it would get DX if MS were going bankrupt.
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HERE YE HERE YE PIRATE WINDOWS MORE THAN YOU DO NOW if its at all possible
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For some odd reason...

VPC runs a million times faster in OS 9. Windowing is better.... Resizing is better... Motion video is better.

I wonder why.

I have a 800 mhz FP 17" imac and VPC runs slightly slower than my 733mhz Celeron at work, when running in OSX.

However when running VPC in OS9 it is considerably faster than my work computer
 
I myself have a 800 mhz FP 17" imac and am running VPC 6(XP home edition) and it's soooooooooo slow. You wait forever on the refresh rate. I understand its' emulation but get it right or don't do it at all. Hopefully, with it's recent aquisition, VPC might get alittle better(or worse). Honestly, if ya need to use Windows, just go out and build/buy a machine.

"It's a dual platform world(perhaps more soon). Do what you have to do to get the job done."

"Loyalty is to yourself, not a company"
 
Don't mean to sabotage the thread, but why does everyone think that MS is going to screw over VPC? I don't see VPC as anything other than a positive product for Microsoft. The way I see it, MS is really just a software company. So what if people decide to run a copy of Windows on their Mac instead of an x86 PC? Another copy of Windows sold is another copy of Windows sold, regardless of the platform.

If anything, MS would probably find ways to make VPC better in order to encourage Mac users to purchase more Windows software. That's the way I see it, at least.
 
Originally posted by wowoah
The way I see it, MS is really just a software company.
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True, but without a doubt a software company with a lot of important ties with big x86 vendors, worth lots of $$$!
 
For those of you who have run VPC 6, would win2k be usable on an 867 12" PB with 640mb ram? It would need to run only one program, QuarkXPress, and although it doesn't need to be fast, it still needs to work.
 
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