VMWare does not emulate hardware, so if you run it on an x86
machine, it will only run an x86 software, and AFAIK there is no
version of VMware that will run on MacOS.<BR><BR>Do they happen to run a
Windows server? Since I assume you will have to be on the network anyways to
use the software, why not use Terminal Services in Windows? It'll be much
faster than virtual PC.<BR>
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<ibook@lists.themacintoshguy.com><BR>Subject: Re: [P1] Graphite and
VPC<BR>Date: 31/05/04 17:43<BR><BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><BR>Has
he taken a look at VMWare? I used to use it on my Linux boxes,<BR>with
win98SE inside of it and it worked just fine. My last system that<BR>ran it
was a Celeron 333mhz with 256mb RAM, so that Graphite should be<BR>able to
handle it.<BR><BR>Jean-Paul<BR><BR>On 01/06/2004, at 2:56, Signhelpers.com
wrote:<BR><BR>> A friend has a Graphite iBook with 320 megs of RAM
running 9.2.<BR>><BR>> He needs to run the windoze version of
Quickbooks 2004 Premiere with<BR>> the manufacturing module (inventory
etc.).<BR>><BR>> He's tried it with Virtual PC 4.0 and it's extremely
slow - basically<BR>> unusable.<BR>><BR>> The question is how to
make this functional to save him from buying a<BR>> Dell
laptop?<BR>><BR>> I'm thinking that at least part of the problem may
be the older<BR>> version of VPC. Or is the Graphite processor just not
up to snuff on<BR>> this
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