Re: PC apps on an iMac

Bonge Boo! <bingbong@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 13/2/06 09:56, in article
43f05259$2$6977$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "mutley"
<alias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A web search suggests to me that I have two options which are
well-supported: VirtualPC and GuestPC. Is there much to choose? And which
version of VPC? I have tried to run VPC4 on my G4/700 iMac, I can get the
Win98 screen but I can't get it to recognise any of the attached devices,
something to do with configuring it has defeated me. Mostly it just crashes.
Hoary old chestnut but I have struggled with it.

Don't even think of bothering. Buy a nice cheap Pentium2/3 for £50 on Ebay
and use that instead. For the cost of VPC you can buy a pretty fast PC, KVM
switch and a copy of Win2k.

Actually, I've tried VPC on my G5 here, and have to agree, it'd
definitely be better to just buy a cheap PC off eBay.

Indeed, you could probably by a pretty current model for the cost of VPC
and a Windows licence.

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Andy Hewitt ** FAF#1, (Ex-OSOS#5) - FJ1200 ABS
Windows free zone (Mac G5 Dual Processor)
<http://andyhewitt.webhop.net/>
(updated Jan 2006)
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