On Nov 29, 2004, at 4:30 AM, Tim Collier wrote:
I was running Virtual PC on a 17 inch 1 gig G4 iMac and it was "painfully slow". But, it did run and got the job done. This last Friday, I purchased a new 12 inch iBook with a 1.2 gig G4 processor (using it now). I installed VPC on it and I was truly amazed at how much faster it runs. This is VPC version 6.x.....I eventually plan on updating it to the new Version 7. Just wanted to let you know that the slight boost in processor speed has made a huge difference in performance of VPC. I wonder if the Bus Speed is different also? Anyway, this is my experience.
No, that slight increase in processor speed couldn't have made the difference. Odds are that something is messed up with the VPC install on the iMac.
The iMac has a 133 MHz bus, and a Geforce MX 4 video. The iBook has the same bus speed and a the Radeon Mobility 9200 chipset.
On that iMac VPC should run at about the apparent speed of a 5-600 Mhz PIII system with slow video. (as a general rule, VPC runs like a pentium system of half the speed of the Mac with non-video intensive applications. ) It should NOT be 'painfully slow'. It is also not the way to play PC-only games, get a real pc for that; they're cheap enough.
Do not, however, discount that VPC is heir to all the slings and arrows of the Windows world. It can be infested with viruses and spyware just like it's real hardware cousins.
A bad spyware infestation will make a top of the line P4 system run like it was a PC-XT on tranquilizers.
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Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Phar cy Information Technology Group
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