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G5 + Virtual PC 6 = gaming machine or no?

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RollWave

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How does virtual PC perform with games and what not versus a p4 or AMD? I dont really know anything about virtual PC and what its limitations are?
 
as far as I'm aware virtual PC does not allow for hardware video acceleration which would immediatly make it a bad platform for games.

-Spy
 
Virtual PC attempts to create an "emulated" or "virtual" PC completely through software. Vital components of a PC that don't exist on a Mac's motherboard are instead recreated in RAM. The drawback is that running a "virtual" chip in RAM is much slower than using a real chip.

There is no 3D video acceleration, since it would make the emulator completely useless in terms of speed. Even the fastest Mac emulating a PC equipped with only a 4MB SIS (?) video card will be lucky to achieve Pentium II speeds. Real world performance of Virtual PC is closer to a midrange Pentium I computer.

So while you might be able to play a few games using Virtual PC, most modern games using any type of 3D images won't work at all. The few games that do work, will run at a completely unusable (slow) speed.

Hope this helps!
 
hows the performance of running windows based applications thru virtual PC? i have an 700mhz ibook that i need to run some financial software on, and it only works in windows environments....so i'm either going to have to try virtual pc 6 with windows XP ($200) or buy a PC based laptop to run my programs from ($1100)....i'm leaning towards the cheaper of the two obviously, but i dont want to throw my $200 away to find out the performance of the product wont be adequate.

thanks!
t
 
i dont think there's a trial version....i went thru the connetix site and didnt see anything offering to me to test...

thanks tho,
-t
 
It's pretty slow... I think on a 700 mhz Ibook it would be workable (Pentium 1 speeds), but you should have a bunch of ram available.
 
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