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Summary: Minimum requirement: SuperComputer to make this product run.
Review: Advertised 25% faster.. OMG! If it was any slower it would be stopped. I made a mistake with my G4 1 gig Powerbook of installing just 128 megs of ram on my first install due to I only had 512 megs of physical ram. Not even worth running.. even Solitaire runs like a dog. So I upped my laptop to a full gig & made 512 ram available to my next XP install thinking "problem solved". No difference, No exaggeration.. slow slow slow.
To be honest, if it ran at a good or even acceptable level.. it would be really nice. It is very easy to configure, the support is great: sound, nic, video configuration all works very well.
Very Very pricey tho, prolly need a dual G5 to bring it up to an acceptable level.
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Summary: Multiple lock-ups and fatal errors
Review: I'm running a Mac powerbook G4 with 1 gig of ram. At work, I'm on a PC network where we only use two programs--outlook for messaging, and ACT where we keep our database. Everyday I would experience fatal errors and lockups in addition to it just being slow. Mistakenly, I assumed that if I brought the ram up to 2 gigs, i could allocate 1 gig to virtual pc. WRONG! Microsoft says Virtual PC doesn't allow you to allocate any more than 512K. What a piece of S.
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Summary: No wonder there is no money-back guarantee
Review: Installing VPC on a 1.25 ghz Mac took me back to the days of the original Mac. No, not because of its easy-to-use elegance, but because VPC with XP Pro is slower than a Mac One with only a floppy drive. I allocated 352 mb ram and 16 mb vram, and to say that it "ran" would be to insult the concept. It crawled, it oozed, it petrified... I used the Windows version of Explorer on my broadband, and it took minutes to load a page that OS X loads in 3 seconds. In fact, no page fully loaded as no graphic ever appeared no matter how long I waited. Microsoft is supposed to deliver an update in 2004. As always, the magazines will give it reasonably good reviews, but unless you get it "free" with the Office "update" you should wait to read the Amazon reviews.
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Summary: Why did I even give this 1 star????
Review: The only thing I can say with regards of virtual pc is that the feeling of using it is no different than having $1,000,000.00 the other side of a window and not being able to open the window to get to it! Yes, it's that frustrating!
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Summary: Pure stress....
Review: This is absolutely the most aggravating program I've ever used in my life. I have to use it for only one program that I have, an online postage program, which doesn't exist in the Mac world.I run a 1ghz flat panel Imac, a fairly speedy Mac. But running a Windows program in Virtual PC, it runs like a 100Mhz pc....it's pitiful. But, the only option for some Mac users that need to run Windows applications. Virtual Pc is a necessary evil, and I'm glad it exists....but geez, some work needs to be done on it.
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Summary: Pure stress....
Review: This is absolutely the most aggravating program I've ever used in my life. I have to use it for only one program that I have, an online postage program, which doesn't exist in the Mac world. I run a 1ghz flat panel Imac, a fairly speedy Mac. But running a Windows program in Virtual PC, it runs like a 100Mhz pc....it's pitiful. But, the only option for some Mac users that need to run Windows applications. Virtual Pc is a necessary evil, and I'm glad it exists....but geez, some work needs to be done on it.
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Summary: IT¿S SO SLOW IT HURTZ
Review: When I first started up Virtual PC with Windows XP/Professional [aka VPC+XP/P] on a 1.2 GHz Apple iBook G4 with 320 Mb RAM dedicated to VPC I thought that it had locked up --- but Windows XP was just very very very very slow coming up. The box says 20% faster but I can't even imagine what it must have been like on the minimum recommended processor. Pull-down menus sometimes take a couple of minutes to respond. VPC+XP/P may work OK on a Mac 2.5 GHz desktop with a 333 MHz bus, but it sure is NOT appropriate on an Apple iBook with only 133 MHz. Updating XP with REQUIRED security updates from Microsoft took well over 2 hours to install. After the software was updated with the required updates, the capability to view VPC as a drive on the OS X side stopped working completely and has never returned. The iBook's CD/DVD Superdrive only provides read-only capability to Windows XP. Also, I couldn't get my Visor Platinum to sync with the Palm desktop for XP software through either of the iBook's USB ports. Quite frankly, VPC+XP/P is just NOT worth the frustration one experiences running it on an Apple iBook. Perhaps when Microsoft finishes the new version for the G5 processor and dual processors are used on a 3 GHz desktop, then and only then, will there be a possibility that this software might be reasonably responsive. In the meantime I would recommend instead buying an inexpensive non-Mac laptop or desktop PC if one absolutely must run Windows-only software. It'll be less painful that way.
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