[P1] Graphite and VPC

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I'm checking on the version of Windows. That makes some sense. Thanks.
>>
>>He's tried it with Virtual PC 4.0 and it's extremely slow - 
>>basically unusable.
>
>There are other variables you haven't mentioned that may be 
>significant -- what version of Windows is he runnning? How much RAM 
>assigned to VPC and to the virtual machine?
>>
>>The question is how to make this functional to save him from buying 
>>a Dell laptop?


At 1:23 PM -0600 5/31/04, Harry D. Corsover wrote:
>I used to run VPC 4.0 on a graphite iBook SE 366 MHz with 320 MB 
>RAM, running Win 98SE. All I used it for was an occasional .exe 
>flash presentation or for web sites that were optimized for Windows. 
>It was slow but usable. I think I had 256 MB RAM assigned to the 
>virtual machine, and had to restart with a reduced extension set to 
>make that work.
>
>I'm now on an AlBook 15" 1.25 GHz with 768 MB RAM, running VPC 6.1.1 
>and Win XP Pro (this came with the version of Office v.X). XP Pro is 
>a resource hog, and runs about as slow as 98SE did on the iBook. A 
>good combination might be a faster Mac and Win 98SE or Win 2000.

I wouldn't think that Quickbooks would be too intensive for VPC, but 
who can tell about Windoze?

Thanks again.


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