Re: real estate situation

2005-07-06 Thread Tim Collier
Here's my 2 cents. Virtual PC runs very well but slowly on every Mac I've ever put it on including my G5 iMac. At least on the G5, it runs half way fast but on this 1.2 gig iBook, it's tedious at best. When VPC (I have the latest version--7) is running, for all intents and purposes you are

Re: real estate situation

2005-07-06 Thread Frank Cornew
Have managed to run just about any software on the various versions of VPC, especially 5 and 6. Specifically, the schlock put out by the mexican banks and government and (non schlock) accounting software put out by a small softworks down here in Mexico. Has also been useful for believe it or

Re: real estate situation

2005-07-06 Thread Karen Thompson
Claire, I got to thinking again about your dilemma and did a search and came up with the following: Virtual PC for Real Estate Use? Can I use an Apple 14 iBook 1.33 GHz with 768MB RAM as my Real Estate Platform? In my case (California) I needed to work with two key Windows based programs. Let me

Re: real estate situation

2005-07-06 Thread Dan K
Virii are still very much an issue with Windows under VPC. You'll have to use and maintain AV software same as with a 'regular' wintel PC. Heh heh, as for getting support from any PC 'support' drones, just switch VPC to full screen mode . . . they probably won't even know the difference! :-D

Re: real estate situation

2005-07-06 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 6, 2005, at 3:55 AM, Tim Collier wrote: Here's my 2 cents. Virtual PC runs very well but slowly on every Mac I've ever put it on including my G5 iMac. At least on the G5, it runs half way fast but on this 1.2 gig iBook, it's tedious at best. When VPC (I have the latest version--7) is

Re: real estate situation

2005-07-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
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

Re: real estate situation

2005-07-06 Thread Lawrence Weeks
Once upon a time (Tue Jul 05), Claire Hart wrote: Today I talked to the person that handles computer support for the company I will be working for. (He is not in-house, but works independently.) He says he has worked on Macs, but he doesn't know what Virtual PC is, and he can't believe that I

Re: real estate situation

2005-07-06 Thread david
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

OE on OSX?

2005-07-06 Thread Jim Katz
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Re: OE on OSX?

2005-07-06 Thread Tim Collier
No, but should run in classic. Try OS X's mail app. It's good. Exterminate all rational thought. Jim Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: __ Baby question: Does Outlook Express work on OSX? Thanks, Jim -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: OE on OSX?

2005-07-06 Thread Rick McCutcheon
Or Thunderbird Rick On 6-Jul-05, at 9:59 PM, Tim Collier wrote: No, but should run in classic. Try OS X's mail app. It's good. Exterminate all rational thought. Jim Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: __ Baby question: Does Outlook Express work on OSX? Thanks, Jim -- G-Books

Re: real estate situation

2005-07-06 Thread Laurent Daudelin
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