No intel mac here, so i'm stuck with VPC... are you talking about the 7.0.3 update... apparently it performs better that 7...you'd think it'd run pretty good on my 1.6GHz powerbook (leopard) although I'll have to do a bit of stickhandling to get it to install; i know vpc isn't supported on 10.5.8
Elliott Price wrote: > Since VPC is made by Bloatware itself, (aka Microsoft) it runs VERY > VERY slowly. Our 667Mhz Mac had trouble running XP with VPC. If you > really do want to run Windows on your Mac in an emulator, I would go > with something simpler like VirtualBox (I think that's what it's > called, not quite sure) or Parallels or Fusion on intel Macs. > > -Elliott Price > Mac Computer Repair - Santa Barbara > Graphic Design - Artwork Setup > Websites - Low Cost Custom Websites > > On Dec 12, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > >> On Dec 12, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Christian Wacker wrote: >> >> >>> (It will be interesting to >>> see if a 350mhz PPC can run windows 7 as well as my 3.2ghz DualCore >>> AMD system) >>> >> No it won't be interesting at all, unless by 'interesting' and 'run as >> well as' you mean 'enormously boring' and 'because it takes four days >> to boot up'. ;-) >> >> It will run Windows 7 (if at all) about as well as a Pentium 166 would >> (if at all). As a general rule VPC ran about as fast as a real PC of >> roughly half the clock speed of the Mac. >> >> -- >> Bruce Johnson >> >> "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are a member of the iMac >> Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. >> The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our >> netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To leave this group, send email to [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist >> > > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
