Re: [WinMac] Usable speed of Virtual PC on G3?
John Santora(tenor[at]passport.ca)
Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:00:12 -0400
>I'm thinking of selling my Power Mac 8500/120 w/ 100 MhZ pentium card and
>buying a Powerbook G3/250 and using Virtual PC 2.0 for doing windows
>development. So far, I've been satisfied with the speed of my 100MHz
>pentium card, and was wondering if anyone had any experience with serious
>use of Virtual PC on a G3 machine.
I've been using VPC 2.0.1 for about a month now on a PB G3/250/13.3 with
160MB RAM. I have Win95 setup with 64MB of RAM and a 1GB HD file, and I run
Outlook97, Access97, PageMaker 6.5 and PhotoShop 4.0 LE -- all faster than
on my IBM ThinkPad 760CD (P90) and my wife's NEC 2530 (P133). I would guess
it's at least P166-MMX-class performance. It works with our Novell/NT/Win95
network flawlessly. I don't do any development, though...
The biggest potential problem you could have is the fixed screen resolution
of a PB. It's 1024x768, so if you do a lot of development at 640x480 or
800x600, you'll have a smaller image in a window, or a full-screen with a
black border all around. Doesn't bother me (I run Win95 at 800x600x256
colors), but it may be an issue if you want to see things "full size."
John Santora
tenor@passport.ca
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