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trunksfujita

macrumors member
Original poster
Jul 27, 2003
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Miami
Virtual PC and PowerBook 17" 1.33 GHZ, 512 Ram




Hi has anyone tried using The latest version of Virtual PC 6.0 With Windows XP Home or proffessional, I would like to know the performace, how fast is it, is it good enough to work with it, THE PROBLEM is that i need to run it on my new uodated powerbook, because i need to run VisualBasic.net on it for school.

I had an IBook with 800mhz, 640Ram, and 32 MB Video, And the performance sucked, it was really slow and crappy, a

I want to know if i will lose my money because, it is not going to be fast enough.

Thank you






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Powerbook G5

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Jun 23, 2003
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It's still going to suck, especially with XP. Try just running Windows 98 or 2000 if you want a faster experience. XP just has way too much multimedia and bloatware that ends up slowing down VPC. I used to use it with 98 and it was running at a decent enough speed with my PowerBook G3 to be okay, so see if that would work for you.
 
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