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Remote Desktop Connection

If you have a PC, you can run RDC on your Mac to connect to it. Then you can run the programs you need without the performance/memory issues you are having.
 
unfortunately VPC nows sucks, i can run it best (version 5) on my g3 imac with os 9, i've found all updates since to suck
 
nargot said:
unfortunately VPC nows sucks, i can run it best (version 5) on my g3 imac with os 9, i've found all updates since to suck

hey man, no way. i've used vpc 5 on os 9 and it doesn't come close to vpc 7.0 with win2000. same G4 machine.
 
Bye Bye Baby said:
What a typical whinging pohmie reply. Could you at least try and be a little bit more diplomatic...

Uhh don't put all us britts into one bracket. Edesignuk is on his own there mate, thought it was kind of a rude responce my self

Sorry Edesignuk, but it was


laters :cool:
 
I don't care what anyone says. VPC SUCKS! there is really no point in trying to get it to work. It's way too slow to use without getting frustrated.
 
j_maddison said:
Uhh don't put all us britts into one bracket. Edesignuk is on his own there mate, thought it was kind of a rude responce my self

Sorry Edesignuk, but it was


laters :cool:
I don't think e was being exceptionally rude (at least, not for him ;)). It was a fairly obvious thing, and the
... you act as if I should have known all of this. Sorry, but if I was designing a program to emulate a PC on a MAC I think I might have given it a bit more oomph. Especially considering that it came with Windows XP Professional.
response annoyed me as well.

I don't think Lorn absolutely should have known what he obviously didn't, but, good God, even I felt like rushing to MS's defense on this one. "I think I might have given it a bit more oomph". Please.

** marks down only time, ever, defending MS **

We all have asked dumb questions in these forums (or at least I have), but I expect a bit of "RTFM, mate"-type replies when I do.
 
JzzTrump22 said:
I don't care what anyone says. VPC SUCKS! there is really no point in trying to get it to work. It's way too slow to use without getting frustrated.

agreed, unfortunately for those times you need a PC for specific software you might as well just buy a PC.
 
meta-ghost said:
hey man, no way. i've used vpc 5 on os 9 and it doesn't come close to vpc 7.0 with win2000. same G4 machine.

well just stating the facts of what i experience
I'm running win 98 on VPC

On a G4 800 mhz, VPC 7 its runs physically slightly faster than VPC 5 on G3 400 mhz (booted on OS 9.2). For some bizarre reason i can use a PC specific USB device on the G3 only when on OS 9 (not classic, or OS X of any kind) so i feel that there are major problems with VPC in general and it is a almost useless program
 
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