Frank: I upgraded (not without some quirks) from VPC 6.1 to 7 recently. My iBook G4 933 runs it very well and I am pleased after this upgrade. It is much faster than before and plays much better with peripherals, esp. printers.
Mikrosoft says you need at least a G4 700 to run VP7, but I know one person who is running it successfully on a G4 533PM apparently without problems. ctw On Feb 7, 2005, at 11:04 PM, Frank Hammitt wrote: > Three years ago I switched form Dell to a Ti PowerBook G4 667MHz, 512M > RAM and have been pleased. There have been some gaps in total > satisfaction because I could not find a Mac equivalent to some of the > Windows based software I was using, specifically: ACT! (a contact > manager database); MS Project; Visio; Synchronization with a handheld > Compaq IPAQ; plus several proprietary applications. > > I gave in to MS Office for Mac v.X to maintain some viability with my > clients (all use Windows) and tried Virtual PC (VPC) 6.1 which runs > embarrassingly slow, virtually unusable in front of clients. > > Some of you must face the same issue, how do you work around the > issue? Also, what Apple laptop configuration in terms of CPU speed and > RAM will I need to run VPC 6.1 adequately? VPC 7.0 is getting lukewarm > reviews. I travel a great deal and lighter is better so I am > considering the new 1.5MHZ 12? PB with 1G RAM. Does anyone know what > that will emulate in Windows? > > Any help is appreciated, I feel myself being pulled to the dark side > of the (computer) force. > > Frank > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1767 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050208/b1635f85/attachment.bin
