[Ti] Virtual PC question

[Seymour Wolfson]

>My ti/500 died last week, and my boss has agreed to purchase me a new 
>1.67/G4 Powerbook to replace it.  I had kind of hoped that it would hold 
>out till Apple had released the intel based Powerbooks, so that I could 
>dual boot between Solaris x86 and Mac OS X, but that didn't happen.
>
>As I am going to get a new system with a PowerPC chip, I believe that 
>Virtual PC is my "Plan B" to have a laptop that I can share between Mac 
>OS X and Solaris 10 x86.
>
>My question is, is there anyone already doing this that can provide any 
>hints or helpful tips?  I already own an old copy of Virtual PC 6.x that 
>I never really used.  Should I try to use this, or will I be better off 
>with the new Virtual PC 7.x from micro$oft???
>
>TIA for any tips or pointers,
>
>Jerry K
>
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I have VPC on my G4 Powerbook (1GB ram).  For me, v6 worked really well and 
would boot up both Windows 2000 and XP faster than you could on a regular 
PC.  Then I made the mistake of upgrading to Microsoft's version 7 and it all 
went downhill.  I think it is now a disaster.  It takes forever to start up and 
anything I do is really slow.  I feel it is typical of MIcrosoft.  Anything they touch 
seems to go downhill.
Seymour