this is waaaay off topic of the thread On Dec 27, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Bill Chapman wrote:
> @Christian Wacker: > > A little off-topic, but others here might benefit from my recent > experience of installing Virtual PC 7 on 3 of my macs > Worked well at first on: > • B/W G3 Tower 400MHz B/W running 10.3.9. with VPC 703 upgrade > • Quicksilver G4 800MHz running 10.4.11 with VPC 703 upgrade > After a couple of days, things bogged down on both of those > systems. On > the G3 I started to get a terminal window with an 'invalid boot' > message > whenever I tried to start VPC, and on the G4 it slowed to a crawl. I > have plenty of info on how to keep things 'cleaner', like dumping > unused > stuff from WinXP (I'm only using VPC to test my web designs in IE6... > nothing else), the VPC cache thing, etc., but honestly I can't be > bothered at this time. > > The good news is that it works infinitely better on my Titanium G4 > Powerbook 1.6GHz 10.5.8 system. So I dumped it off the other 2 > systems. > (One point is that I've stayed with 7 and haven't installed any xxx > upgrade on the Leopard machine just yet since it works fine so far) So > it's a nice combo, being able to do my Dw thing on the slower > Quicksilver machine and check out my site modifications on the > powerbook > (beats running down to the neighborhood pc internet outlet). > > There it is, a day in the life, hope it helps somebody -- 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
