on 06/07/05 19:29, david at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jul 6, 2005, at 5:58 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> On Jul 6, 2005, at 2:00 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: >> >> >>> Claire, >>> >>> I'm afraid I have to agree with Tim when it comes to VPC. In most >>> cases, VPC is too slow. >>> >> >> I'll third this motion. I've been installing Win XP Pro on my Mac >> (800 Mhz G4) *all day long*, and I'm only about mostly done with >> the Service Pack 2, much less get the VPC attached to the network >> and updated further. Plus <bleeping> VPC is sucking every processor >> cycle it can get it's greedy little hands on. > > One major issue is the OS version you install. WinXP is a resource > hog. My homebrew PC that was snappy with Win2k crawled under Win2k. > VPC on my alBook runs Win98, Millennium, and Win2k well enough to > use. WinXP isn't acceptable at all. In fact, I wouldn't even use > WinXP on my dually G5.
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