Sivakatirswami wrote:
Thanks for everyone's input. As always, many ways to describe an elephant..
Our Apple repair-lady was here today. She said "Forget VPC, you will not only waste time but destabilize your whole system if you plan to do anything else on that machine."
But, I would be running VPC on OSX G4 dual-processor desktop model, (in another room) to upgraded to a G5 soon... so I think the speed will be acceptable.
But productivity can be an issue... fiddling with VPC, vs having a little DEL sitting on the corner of my own desk, plugged into the network would mean instant review. If you are trying to wrap something up in 2 hours... it could mean a lot.
I'll see for now if I can live with VPC and also see if budgets will allow for a PC box...
Thanks Sivakatirswami
Remember VPC for Mac will not run on G5 yet and this VPC for Mac will be the first new version put out under the Microsoft label, rather than Connectix. So who knows if Microsoft will do a good job on this version.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/virtualpc/using.aspx? pid=usingvirtualpc
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/virtualpc/virtualpc.aspx? pid=comingsoon
The online tech literature I have read says the VPC 7 for Mac delay is because Microsoft wanted to get XP SP2 out the door. If you have been following that story you know hot fixes for SP2 are already coming out. I don't see how that can help get VPC 7 for Mac out any sooner. Sigh.
VPC on a modern Mac is slower than all but an ancient PC. Duh. :) However my wife used VPC 3, 5 and then 6 on a Power Mac (Sawtooth version) 400 MHz machine with 1 GB RAM for a couple of years to run Windows 95, 98 and then 2000 primarily so that she could run several different versions of Windows only Microsoft Money, which is a standard consumer application. Performance was acceptable. She never had a glitch from VPC. Things worked like they would on a real PC. She and I were satisfied.
HTH,
Michael Y
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