[Ti] a Mac OS X/Windows dual booting machine

Stephen Chakwin schak at ix.netcom.com
Tue Feb 25 15:07:16 PST 2003


Thanks, that was encouraging, but I still don't know which Mac OS you 
were running.  My Ti is a 550 running X.2.3 and before I even consider 
spending more on VPC, I'd liek to know that it would move at a speed 
that would be useful.

Best,

Stephen
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 12:39 PM, b wrote:

> According to Stephen Chakwin:
>
>> Were you running VPC on a TiBook?  If so, how configured -- OS, RAM, 
>> chip speed, etc.?  I tried running it on a flat panel iMac 800 under 
>> X and it was impossibly slow.  Of course, this was VPC 5 so maybe 
>> things are different now.
>>
>> Stephen
>
> I was running VPC 5 on a Ti 667, with 1 GB RAM, of which 512 MB was 
> devoted to VPC [the maximum under VPC 5]. Windows 2000 Pro was pretty 
> snappy, although nothing like OS 9.
>
> Now, under VPC 6, with the same RAM, Win2k Pro is faster, but XP is 
> about the same as before, still very usable.
>
> ~flipper
>
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