[Ti] Virtual PC 6.0 on BigAl

[Seymour J. Wolfson]

>Greetings All,
>
>Apologies for I'm certain this has been addressed already, but I'm 
>considering VPC 6 for BigAll (1Gig RAM).
>Has anyone purchased, installed and used this product recently on 
>BigAl and if so, what grade would you give its performance? My last 
>exposure to VPC was way back in v2 under OS9 (300MHz G3) and 
>performance was dreadful. Realizing this is not geared toward 
>high-end performance but some base level of functionality, is it 
>"usably fast" for simple chores like Office work, or web surfing, or 
>the occasional 3D model translation under something like Deep 
>Exploration? any real 3D/graphics work is of course done in native 
>OSX or Intel env.
>
>As I understand it, there are no upgrades from v2 to v6, but they 
>recommend purchasing VPC6/DOS and using your own license of XP or 
>what have you, providing a more reasonable path.
>
>Any feedback is welcomed. Will probably purchase but am trying to 
>keep expectations low ;-).
>
>Best Regards,
>
>John B. Crane
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I am using VPC6 on the new PB 17".  It seems to work a little better 
than the previous version running on OS 9.2 on my G4 Tower.
I find in general that VPC seems to be OK for simple applications. 
As soon as you get into complex systems, VPC cannot handle it.  Maybe 
on the new G5 there would be some hope.
Even on the PB, the systems it fails to work well for me are
1) Yahoo messenger trying to use the "Talk" feature.  None of the 
audio is clear although it is trying and some words do get thru.
2) We use a financial application called Banner which is designed to 
work only with Windows and only with IE.  I can get it to start, but 
after that it will not function at all.  VPC just cannot handle the 
amount of activity required over the network.
I am running OS 10.2.6  and have 1 GB of RAM.
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Seymour