On Monday, April 19, 2004, at 12:04 AM, Tom W. wrote:
I'm getting a B&W this week and thinking of the Daystar 550MHz G4 upgrade
for it. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what type of performance I
could expect from Virtual PC? I want to chuck my windoze box, but have a
couple of apps I need to run.
I do not know about on a G4, but my experience on a beige G3 was that virtual pc ran at about a third of the speed as that Mac it was running on. in my beige G3 233, it ran like a p75. Acceptable for what I wanted it for, occasional Word documents and accessing my company's accounting package over the network, but I would not want to depend on it for day to day usage. Especially if the programs were processor intensive.
Considering the cost of a pc, if you have the room for two cpus, that might be the better option. There is a dealer in the DC area that sells used Macs (I just picked up a G4 533 digital audio from them) and pcs pretty cheaply. They are running a promo currently for a pII 400 w/ 17" monitor for $99, while VPC will cost about 150.
HTH, Len
-- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and...
Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! |
Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html>
G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
