I've heard that it is a few orders of magnitude slower than real hardware - as in it takes several hours to boot on a > 3 GHz Intel x86.
To boot, no, but to install, yes it takes ages. I used BootCD to create an OS X "Live" CD and my coworker and I tried it on his 3GHz P4 laptop running SUSE. We were both amazed at just how usable it was, as we were expecting it to be atrocious. It took 5 minutes or so to boot. Keep in mind, though, that it was booting from a CD and running with PearPC using 128MB for RAM. Not bad! We are going to try actually installing it to his hard drive tomorrow and bumping the PearPC config file to use 256MB RAM. I'll post back here with the results. I was playing with it a little while ago on my Via Samuel 2 800MHz with a measly 256 DDR and it was much more painful, though still not as bad as I expected. Again, this was the Live CD with 128MB allocation. I'm going to try running it from a hard drive as soon as I can get it to install without going to sleep waiting on me to respond - which causes PearPC to shut down it down since it can't handle reboot or sleep signals yet.
Peace, Todd http://groovechicken.blogspot.com http://internetliberationfront.org/IrelandJourney/
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