[P1] Virtual PC Help?

[david]

On 12/2/02 7:00 PM, "Alric J. Lam" <Alric.J.Lam at Dartmouth.EDU> wrote:
> 
> I'm getting ready to cross into the dark side of the pc world by installing
> VPC XP Home onto my iBook 600, 30 gig, running OSX.2, with 384 mb ram.  I am
> reading up on the literature to make sure I do things exactly right, but I'm
> checking to see if any of you have suggestions of what to do and what not to
> do?  I am cross listing this to the OSX and iBook lists because I am sure
> there are things to watch out for on both sides, on how to make sure VPC runs
> well with OSX, and how to optimize VPC on an iBook......
>
In a word....don't follow through on this plan...okay, so that wasn't a
single word. I have the same machine as yours (more memory though) and I
found the following:

With Jaguar and VPC I was okay with Win98 SE although Win95 was much more
responsive. Anything newer than Win98 in Jag just wasn't usable IMHO. Now in
OS 9 I was quite happy with Win2000. I never bothered to install WinXP in
VPC but on my Gateway Win2000 is a tad faster than WinXP so I'd expect
similar results in VPC.

There really is that big a difference between OS X and OS 9 when it comes to
VPC performance. Mostly it is because of the way OS X multitasks. With OS 9
the front most application is able to virtually take over the computer
leaving no processing time for other applications. This isn't true for OS X.

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