Re: Virtual PC

From: Chris Inacio (inacio+msnews_at_ece.cmu.edu)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:46:44 -0500

For a relative newbie, bear with some "stupid" questions....

How much does Virtual PC 7 cost? (The quick Amazon check got $108.00 for
just VPC7, $195.00 for VPC7 w/ XP Home, and $230.00 for VPC7 w/ XP Pro.)

This gets you a machine that simulates to the equivalent of PII 266MHz.

You may need to upgrade your memory in order to run it at even that speed.

Why do people buy this software? Seriously, isn't it just easier to get
a cheap PC. PC's can be pretty cheap; not as cheap as $195.00, but not
too expensive either. But for $350, you can get a Dell PC with a 2.4GHz
  Celeron, 512MB ram, and 40 Gig HD.

I mean if you're gonna drop down $200; don't you can TONS more for $350?
  Getting rid of the monitor on it drops it down to $300.....

So what is the advantage of Virtual PC then? I'm not trolling, I
actually want to know why people buy it. I even compared it to Dell,
I'm sure you can drop that price lower with a lesser brand PC.

chris

Patrick Jones wrote:
> On 11/14/04 12:39 PM, in article uJTUKmnyEHA.2200@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl,
> "Terrell" <macmanx@gawab.com> wrote:
>
>
>>----------
>>In article <BD8730EA.6358%robie_e@msn.com>, RE <robie_e@msn.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>hello - I'm wondering if there's general approval/disapproval of virtual
>>
>>pc.
>>
>>>can anybody break down any disadvantages to the software? i.e. any
>>>conflicts w/ other software.
>>>
>>>thanks in advance for the advice.
>>>
>>>RE
>>>I use Virtual PC 6 and it is okay for General Windows purposes it is not a
>>
>>full fledge replacement. The screen refresh rate is too slow for anything
>>like games and I wouldn't recommend using it under MacOS X. Under MacOS X it
>>just crashes too much and it will destroy your Virtual PC. Strangely, any PC
>>that crashed under MacOS X still runs in 9 as if nothing ever happened.
>>Anyway Virtual PC emulates about a typical Pentium II 266mhz machine so
>>don't expect magic. To get the best performance from Virtual PC I recommend
>>that you run it from with in MacOS 9 since Mac OS 9 doesn't require as much
>>ram as X, but if you must run it under X your best bet is to upgrade you ram
>>past 256mb, don't run Virtual PC in full screen mode, and pray.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> You'll want to get VPC 7, runs much better on OSX than 6, although I've
> never had it "destroy" my virtual PC. Just ran slow. Make sure you check the
> system requirements before you buy.
>

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