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

Stephen Chakwin schak at ix.netcom.com
Tue Feb 25 08:48:16 PST 2003


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
On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 11:49 PM, b wrote:

> According to Bill Reburn:
>
>> Orange made a cometitive product, often one processor step ahead of 
>> what
>> Apple was using (Intel and Cyrix chips)
>>
>> And you're right, it IS (ok, was) better than VPC.
>
> Was, is right. I had a friend over last week, who has been a 
> Macromedia/Photoshop/design guy on the PC/Wintel platform, for years, 
> and I said, "Hey, Joe, watch this." And I booted, from a cold start, 
> Win XP, in VPC, and it just opened, so fast [from the 'saved state' it 
> had been in for a month], and occupied my entire 22" external monitor. 
> Operational in no time. He flipped. He happened to have his Sony 
> laptop, and booted Win 2k on it, and it was twice as long, easily, 
> before he was operational.
>
> ~flipper
>
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