<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>What on earth is the point of running VPC - a PC emulator that itself will have to run in emulation? Of course it will be slow.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Fortunately there is no need as OpenOSX's Wintel (<A href="http://openosx.com/wintel/">http://openosx.com/wintel/</A> ) run's XP on Intel Macs without any emulation. And it is just $25. I haven't used it so can't vouch for it directly, but they claim to boot XP in about 30 seconds.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>--Ian</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 24 Feb 2006, at 23:50, John Griffin wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">My bad! I meant MS VPC, not Office. I realise MS Office can work at reduced speed under Rosetta. But who really wants reduced speed and bloated applications?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">jg</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Courier New" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Courier New">----------------------------------------------------</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Courier New" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Courier New">Ian Collier<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="mailto:ian.collier@mac.com">ian.collier@mac.com</A></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Courier New; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">+44 (0)121 472 2666<FONT face="Courier New" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Courier New"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>(cell) +44 (0)7866 510075</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Courier New" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Courier New">----------------------------------------------------</FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>