Re: ...Panther + MS Virtual PC v6.1

Andrew Wed, 19 May 2004 20:37:48 -0700

I use VPC on my Sawtooth 400MHz G4 and my 1GHz 12" PowerBook, though both of those machines are considerably more powerful than your Pismo. Screen draws are slow, as is disk access (it has to translate from the Mac vollume into a "Hard Drive" file in both directions, which is done in software, and of course the PC video card is emulated, with everything drawn not by the Mac's GPU, but rather by its CPU, as the emulation is a program.

Despite all that against it, Virtual PC isn't that bad. I had a Pentium 133MHz laptop PC running Windows 2000 and on everything except screen and disk, VPC is much faster. I also still have a Pentium 266MHz MMX laptop running Windows XP, and VPC under Windows 2000 is about equal in most tasks. It is too slow to play videos well, though MP3 music plays fine, and even light games like the old "Age of Empires" runs adequately.

Where VPC is best is in math or non-video intensive applications. I use it to run Internet Explorer 6, which is required for a few sites I use at work, and it is almost as fast as a real PC, and not at all annoying. Programs like Word Processors run just fine, as do even graphical tools (I tried Photoshop 5.5 and it wasn't bad).

Of course, on a 400MHz G3 your experience will be different than mine, though another option is to boot OS9 and run VPC from there. I don't know why, but on my Sawtooth VPC is much faster under OS9 than under 10.3.3, though VPC on my PowerBook (10.3.3 only) is MUCH faster than on the Sawtooth in OS9. Could be all of the extra ram on the PowerBook.

Andrew
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On May 19, 2004, at 8:13 PM, Jim Scolman wrote:

Hi All, any thoughts, ideas, DIRECT EXPERIENCE with MS Virtual PC 6.1 and Panther 10.3.3 ? I am using a Pismo/400, 640MB RAM, lots of fast HD, and Panther 10.3.3. PLEASE no rants about why, or M$, or the Dark Side. This is a business decision and I only want to use on laptop, so only real experience please. Thanks for your thought, Jim.
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