Virtual PC question!!

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Im swtiching to mac in a few weeks and i have a some questions about virtual pc... I need visual studio to work and i need lan access from windows because in my workplace i need to be jacked in a lan.. does virtual pc handle this properly??? also my kid is a addicted to some microsoft games and i need to know if games run properly on virtual pc... thanks ....
 
It does emulate very well, and it's quite slow. Keep some cheap PC around (monitor sharing is an option) for the gaming part and, yes, do use Microsoft RDC to use the PC from the Mac (if the PC runs Windows XP or 2K Server or 2K3 Server, VNC if it's running Win 2K Pro or something else).

The LAN thing on VPC runs seamlessly, sharing the IP the Mac uses. So you'll have to configure the Mac to be 'okay' on the LAN (the TCP/IP part) and the rest, you'll configure within VPC/Windows.
 
Figure that on a single processor Mac, VPC will run like Pentium running at about 40 to 45% of the clock rate of the PowerPC in the Mac. A dual processor Machine can get that up to 50 to 60% of the Mac's clock speed. So a 1 GHz Mac will run VPC at approximately the same speed as a 400 MHz Pentium. That isn't bad considering it takes anywhere from four to a dozen or more instructions on the host processor (the Mac) for every emulated instruction on the target machine (Pentium PC).

NOTE: Virtual PC does not run on G5s yet. Microsoft has promised a G5 version, I believe they said the first half of this year. But Microsoft has never been known for making its release dates.
 
I used to have Virtual PC with Windows 98 installed (running under Mac OS 9) on my Blue & White PowerMac 500MHz G3, 768MB RAM. I could play Quake 1 without any problems what so ever, in fact, it played the same as on a Pentium 1 processor. I don't use it any more since Virtual PC under Mac OS X is a different story; it is slower, but part of that is that VPC now comes with Windows XP which is a resource hog. If you were running Virtual PC on a PowerMac dual 1.XX GHz G4, you prolly wouldn't notice much difference, depends on the games and their requirements. Regarding using the network and internet, VPC shares all that with the Mac, in fact, I've downloaded files simultaneously in VPC and that Mac side with no problems. A really nice feature is copying and pasting between Mac and VPC.
 
chemistry_geek said:
If you were running Virtual PC on a PowerMac dual 1.XX GHz G4, you prolly wouldn't notice much difference, depends on the games and their requirements.
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only if you are playing windows solitaire or games from the early 90s. VPC uses its own software emulated graphics card instead of your mac's physical one, most modern games are more or less unplayable.

if you want to play pc games play them on a pc
 
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