[P1] Graphite and VPC

[Harry D. Corsover]

On May 31, 2004, at 12:56 PM, Signhelpers.com wrote:

> A friend has a Graphite iBook with 320 megs of RAM running 9.2.
>
> He needs to run the windoze version of Quickbooks 2004 Premiere with 
> the manufacturing module (inventory etc.).
>
> He's tried it with Virtual PC 4.0 and it's extremely slow - basically 
> unusable.

There are other variables you haven't mentioned that may be significant 
-- what version of Windows is he runnning? How much RAM assigned to VPC 
and to the virtual machine?
>
> The question is how to make this functional to save him from buying a 
> Dell laptop?
>
> I'm thinking that at least part of the problem may be the older 
> version of VPC. Or is the Graphite processor just not up to snuff on 
> this task?
>
> TIA

I used to run VPC 4.0 on a graphite iBook SE 366 MHz with 320 MB RAM, 
running Win 98SE. All I used it for was an occasional .exe flash 
presentation or for web sites that were optimized for Windows. It was 
slow but usable. I think I had 256 MB RAM assigned to the virtual 
machine, and had to restart with a reduced extension set to make that 
work.

I'm now on an AlBook 15" 1.25 GHz with 768 MB RAM, running VPC 6.1.1 
and Win XP Pro (this came with the version of Office v.X). XP Pro is a 
resource hog, and runs about as slow as 98SE did on the iBook. A good 
combination might be a faster Mac and Win 98SE or Win 2000.

Regards,

Harry Corsover
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