Our Apple repair-lady was here today. She said "Forget VPC, you will not only waste time but destabilize your whole system if you plan to do anything else on that machine."
But, I would be running VPC on OSX G4 dual-processor desktop model, (in another room) to upgraded to a G5 soon... so I think the speed will be acceptable.
But productivity can be an issue... fiddling with VPC, vs having a little DEL sitting on the corner of my own desk, plugged into the network would mean instant review. If you are trying to wrap something up in 2 hours... it could mean a lot.
I'll see for now if I can live with VPC and also see if budgets will allow for a PC box...
Thanks Sivakatirswami
On Aug 20, 2004, at 12:25 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
I finished my second very large media project in Rev in MacOSX and the PC side was checked only in Virtual PC (Windows XP and Windows 2000). So far I have not had any responses about issues or problems.
So far it works for me.
Tom
On Aug 20, 2004, at 2:52 PM, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote:
I'm coming to a point where it's imperative that we see how things look on Windows machines. Up to now have just been "winging it." But that won't do in the long run.
Question: Is Virtual PC on the Mac a reliable representation of the user experience on a real PC running Windows?
Obviously there can be underlying hardware issues that Virtual PC cannot address, but for now just the presentation, font sizes, etc. is what i am looking for and, aside from rev presentations: viewing web pages in IE5-6 on Windows... to see if the CSS is rendering as expected...
Does Virtual PC really do a good enough job? Or do I need to requisition a cheap Dell running windows 2000. The "lo-end" Windows user experience would be the target.
Which leads to the next question, should we test under 2000 or XP?
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