As a fellow owner of a 700mhz iBook I share your pain. VPC 6 is still a slow beast in Panther, and I've seen virtually no improvement in speed over 10.2.8. Sorry. For what I use it for (very limited application) it's acceptable, but I can understand a very large degree of frustration associated with it.Originally posted by psxndc
The short: Should I expect speed improvements from VPC on my 700MHz iBook if I simply install Panther?
The long: I bought VPC for use on my ibook and the performacne and use to hard drive space ratio didn't sit well with me. It used a quarter of my 20 GB drive's space and was kinda slow. As such, I uninstalled it.
Is the speed of VPC related to the application and the processor, or does the underlying OS play a part too? Would simply upgrading from 10.2 to 10.3 provide a performance increase or will I just have to wait until I get a new computer to achieve my emulation dream?
-p
Hmmm, sounds like it's time to move up from the 386mb that I've been limping along with for the past while...Originally posted by tsiawdspeed
I also use VPC with XP on a 700 iBook. It is slow but I got more memory for it (now running 640MB) and it is alot faster. I am running an older version of Panther (7B68) and it seems faster than it did when I had Jaguar.