On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Cameron, David wrote:
> It's very fragile and I have needed to reinstall it several times as it
> refuses to work following one of its many crashes. It seems to need a much
> higher spec of machine than the box suggests - I would suggest a G4 with at
> least 256mb ram. Thankfully I have been able to junk it now as my bank
> allows Mac users to use their online banking service.
Interesting, we have found that VPC 3 worked very nicely on an 400MHz
iMac with 128Mb of RAM. We're only trying to run Windows 95 OSR 2 with a
few bits & pieces of multimedia stuff that aren't available for Mac OS
though. I don't think that we've seen it crash ever.
It was a bit slugish on my PB G3 (also 400MHz) with only 64Mb though, and
I guess that running Win98 or 2000 may give much worse results.
Star Office also seemed to not be terribly quick but then it isn't on a
real PC either.
> When it comes down to it with prices so low for low-end Wintel boxes if you
> really need one, get one. Ghastly though they are...
Trouble is, they're far from reliable themselves in my experience. And
it's a good deal more difficult to re-install Windows and all of the
drivers when they do go catastrophically wrong than it is to install
Virtual PC!
Ben.
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