On Feb 8, 2005, at 0:04, Frank Hammitt wrote: > 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);
I'm not up on what ACT!'s specific strengths, but Now Up-To-Date/Contact is a pretty good contact manager. (http://nowsoftware.com) It was light-years in front of the pack until it got taken over by a software holding company (poweron software). > MS Project; Can't help you there. > Visio; You might look at Omnigraffle as a good diagram drawer. It makes things which look a sight nicer than what MS Visio can produce. (http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle) > 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. You might try VPC 7. It is a bit faster, though not to the speed of VPC 5 under MacOS 9 (which ran nearly as fast as a slightly old PC). > > 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? I'd think it would do pretty well on anything that doesn't need fancy graphics. VPC 7 is slow but tolerable (to me, and I'm tolerant) on my dual 800 G4... and it is too brain dead to use more than one of the processors. Thus, it's like it is running on an 800MHz machine. You'll undoubtedly have better luck. From what I've heard, it does best with WinXP - which is not surprising, since it is now owned my M$. Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050208/c88fcc35/attachment.bin
