Three years ago I switched form Dell to a Ti PowerBook G4 667MHz, 512M RAM and have been pleased. There have been some gaps in total satisfaction because I could not find a Mac equivalent to some of the Windows based software I was using, specifically: ACT! (a contact manager database); MS Project; Visio; Synchronization with a handheld Compaq IPAQ; plus several proprietary applications.
I gave in to MS Office for Mac v.X to maintain some viability with my clients (all use Windows) and tried Virtual PC (VPC) 6.1 which runs embarrassingly slow, virtually unusable in front of clients. Some of you must face the same issue, how do you work around the issue? Also, what Apple laptop configuration in terms of CPU speed and RAM will I need to run VPC 6.1 adequately? VPC 7.0 is getting lukewarm reviews. I travel a great deal and lighter is better so I am considering the new 1.5MHZ 12? PB with 1G RAM. Does anyone know what that will emulate in Windows? Any help is appreciated, I feel myself being pulled to the dark side of the (computer) force. Frank -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050208/3844c486/attachment.html
