On Tuesday, September 21, 2004, at 05:08 PM, johnkool wrote:
Thanks for all your advice. Topic is closed. I took some good advice and
bought a used pc more than adequate for the task for less money than the
upgrade card.
One quick item that I forgot about. If you get it with Windows XP Pro, and it's networked with your Mac, you can enable the Windows Remote Connection stuff on the PC, and use the Mac RDC client and be able to run the programs you need from your Mac, so you don't have to set up a monitor, keyboard, etc on the PC, just stuff the thing under your desk out of sight ;-)
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/ otherproducts.aspx?pid=remotedesktopclient>
This product rocks...I use it to connect to our Windows servers for adminning them, it even works reasonably well over a dial-up connection.
Sort of errr, real virtual PC...think of it as VPC with some serious hardware acceleration ;-)
(you can also get Timbuktu ($$) or VNC (free) and do it with any version of Windows, but those aren't as fast as RDC)
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