I agree on the speed. I have an imac G5 with 1.5 gig of ram at home, and find VirtualPC pretty much useless. The only thing I ever need windows for at home is Frontpage. I'd gladly reboot to be able to run that on my mac.
It's amazing how apple can be so successful at convincing us that we want to upgrade so often. I never upgrade a PC until the software that I need to use is just too slow. That is usually brought on my a major OS release (Vista will likely be the next time I think about it). I've upgraded my macs 4 times already, and they all still run the latest OS fine. Yes, I have 4 macs, and now I want another. I'm waiting till the desktops move to intel though. I may even make my next windows development machine a mac at that point. I've wanted one of those cinema displays for some time now! Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lars Jensen Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 11:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT: If you can't beat em... Join em > The boot times are so fast on the Intel Macs that I wonder if the > reboot might be a very small inconvenience to have a native OS > controlling the hardware. No need to wonder -- it's not. I'm happy with my current hardware, but if I could run Windows in a window, I'd buy a new Mac today. Without it, BootCamp is an occasionally useful curiosity. >> But there are things that do not behave exactly the same in VPC and >> so you may still need a real PC from time to time. > > What things? I do use VPC for testing at home. I found that 3D and sound were bad enough to be effectively untestable (using VPC5). Speed was also an issue. lj _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
