Re: [WinMac] Usable speed of Virtual PC on G3?

Michael Diehr(mike[at]xochi.com)
Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:16:24 -0700

Thanks! I didn't realize it was that fast...wow! I'm planning on getting
a ixMicro Road Rocket for 2nd monitor support, so I don't think the monitor
size will be a problem...I was thinking of running mainly MSVC and Director
6.5, neither of which should be much worse than Pagemaker or Photoshop...

>>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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