[P1] VPC5 install problems on my iBook

[larry Zasitko]

Eric,

I have VPC 6.1 running on a 1.33ghz PowerBook with Panther. I have  
found it no slower than a real PC for a lot of things.

I gather that VPC 6 runs around 20-25% faster than previous versions

Do not use XP, these are slow to the point of being useless, guess it  
depends on if you really need it (XP) or not but I use Win 2000 and  
Autocad 2000 and a couple other programs that run only under Windose  
and nothing else and there are few programs with the same features. So  
far it has worked out fine. Load times are about the same as my old  
Celeron 666 and I have not had problems with strange things like your  
key problems.

I have a friend that has a 900mhz iBook and VPC 5 and it was slow under  
XP, so for most things he uses 98se. XP just needs to many resources.  
Heck, I have a desktop PC with XP and 1 gig of ram and it is still not  
happy and I find it slow at times.

Try to find VPC 6

On May 15, 2004, at 8:05 AM, Eric Richardson wrote:

> I am trying to start VPC 5 with Windows XP on my 1 GHz iBook G4 with  
> 640 MB. It took over three hours to get to the start up screen. Other  
> people report similar sluggish behavior under Panther, but some have  
> said it gets much better after it first starts up and gets even better  
> after they apply the updater to 5.0.4. I got to the place where the  
> program asked for my serial number for Windows XP and the weirdest  
> thing has happened. I can't enter the SN because the program won't  
> recognize the 1, 5 or 0 keys! For instance the SN begins VPM5-4810 and  
> I can enter the VPM and the 48 but nothing I do will allow the numbers  
> 1, 5 and 0 to be entered. I even tried typing VPM5 into TextEdit and  
> cutting and pasting it to the field on the authentication screen. It  
> would paste the VPM but not the 5.
>
> Is that weird or what?
>
> Has anyone else ever had that experience? Does anyone have any  
> suggestions?
>
> Also I tried to find Connectix, they appear to have gone away all  
> together. And Microsoft doesn't appear to support v5 even to the point  
> where they don't post the updater to 5.0.4 that Connectix put out.  
> Does anyone know where to find the updater for 5.0.4?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Eric
>
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