.Any sense of performance differences running VPC 5.02 w/ Win98 on 9.2.2 between a Ti400 and an iBook 600? Same memory/set-up for both.

No, couldn't tell you. I have only run VPC 5.0.2 on my G4 Cube under OS X 10.1.3 (about 450 MHz G4, I think, with a 100 MHz system bus and 1.5 Gb RAM.)

Glenn,

You seem to have a good understanding of VPC 5.02 running on 9.2.2 and 10.1, as well as the working of the Mac. Any sense of performance differences running VPC 5.02 w/ Win98 on 9.2.2 between a Ti400 and an iBook 600? Same memory/set-up for both.

Thanks,

Doug

Morgan, that's just asinine. There is practically no piece of software for Windows that isn't produced by the same company for Macintosh in versions released within a few weeks of each other. For programs that are Windows only, outside of games, there are Unix and Mac equivalents that work great with OS X. The "no software" argument has always devolved to the person making it having one or two pieces of five-plus year old software that they can't export data out of and is out of date under Windows, too -- but Windows still runs it.

I'm sorrey for those of you who just love the mac, but the fact is that there are simply no programs for the mac. I need Windows to survive. I thought VPC5 was the answer, I was wrong. The thing is way too slooowwwww! I have an all in one G4 500Mhz 352 MB of RAM. My only complaint is not its speed, I can handel that, but the big problem is I think that it is the cause for my processor dieing. Just 1 week after the instalition of VPC, my processor fries coincidence, I don't think so. Beware VPC is a murderer.

Under System 9, VPC hasn't had any speed problems. And you have a processor with a 33% faster system bus and almost twice as a fast a processor as my Cube. So I would expect even under OS X, VPC 5.0.2 would seem okay to you, but under 9, it would seem fabulous!

I used VPC (version 2 or 3?) years ago on my G3 and it was too slow.

I bought a new G4 (867Mhz) and run System 9.2.2 and gave VPC another chance, this time version 5.0.2. It works great. I use Windows 98 and Office 97 and it's quite fast. This "click 'My Computer' and then walk to the fridge for a Coke and return before it opens" comment surprises me. On my setup, it's 1-2 seconds. to open "My Comuter."

Word documents open VERY quickly.......faster than my wife's PII laptop with Win2000 and Office2000.

I would hazard a guess that a s-l-o-w VPC indicates something wrong with the setup somewhere, either on the PC side, the Mac side or both.

In my case, my Mac's 9.2.2 is an update of an update of an update going back years to the first System 7--it's the anti-thesis of a "clean install," but I tweak on it constantly and it works well. The VPC, though, has a clean install of Win98 with service packs installed from the web. Same with Office. It's fast.

Clearly mileage is varying with this product. I'm running Win2k on a 400 TiBook with 640 MB RAM and from 5.0 to 5.0.1 to 5.0.2 there has been zero perceived improvement. Perhaps it's a bit faster by a stopwatch, but I can still 2click "My Computer" and then walk to the fridge for a Coke and return before it opens. All applications take forever to launch -- two minutes or so for Internet Exploiter. Once they get running, they're really just walking. Slowly.

It sure pushes the processor, though -- all that nothing comes at a hell of a price: the fan comes on almost as soon as the program launches and rarely stops.

You can put me in Dan's camp on this one. VPC 5 is nowhere near being a shipping-ready product and your paean to its adequacy tends to meet my definition of damning with faint praise.