Re: Virtual PC

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

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:11:45 -0500

That performance would certainly change the value equation a whole
bunch. I've run emulators in the past, and in general I've never been
happy with the performance. But sometimes, the cost is such that the
emulator makes sense. It just seems that the cost is iffy here.

That said, I don't think people are buying Mac's because its the clear
cost winner. (I certainly didn't, having recently bought my first one.)

Thanks for the perspective. Being a computer engineer, I would just add
it to my collection machines.... I primarily use my Mac at home though,
although my PC does have the TV (and other) capture on it; so I can use
it to watch TV while I use my Mac, if I want. :)

Chris

Patrick Jones wrote:
> Perhaps this is obvious but people buy it to run something that they can't
> get on the Mac platform, but don't want to be bothered with the headaches of
> maintaining a PC. For myself, I ran it because my degree program required me
> to use MS Access and Visio. It worked great - albeit slowly - on my iBook G3
> 366. My understanding, though, is that on a G4 or G5 the performance is
> somewhat better than a PII 266MHz. That's about the speed I was getting on
> my iBook. I've launched VPC 7 on a G5 running Windows XP Pro and it
> approached P4 speeds.
>
>
> On 11/16/04 9:46 AM, in article u3Gh6N$yEHA.2568@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl,
> "Chris Inacio" <inacio+msnews@ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>>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

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