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Pismo and Virtual PC
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Los Angeles, Ca,
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Hey All
I'm looking to get Virtual PC for my Pismo 400(firewire). Was wondering if any of you have this working on your Pismo.
I need this to run a Mapping program thats for an WinXP machine.
Thanks!!!
Brad
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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Trust me, trying to emulate WinXP on a Pismo400 will be like wading through treacle... in winter! You'd be much better off getting one of those bargain basement PCs, especially if you already have a monitor hanging around.
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Nov 2000
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Well, it's usable, especially if you use it in OS 9. But it won't be fast. Or anything close to fast. Windows XP is particularly slow.
One possibility is to try getting a G4 upgrade for your machine. Or (better yet) get a new PowerBook.
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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See if you can get a copy of VPC4 and run it in OS9 with Windows 2000. It runs about as fast on your machine as VPC5-6 does on a 800Mhz G4 under OSX. Things have slowed down in terms of general usage.
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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Originally posted by RonnieoftheRose:
See if you can get a copy of VPC4 and run it in OS9 with Windows 2000. It runs about as fast on your machine as VPC5-6 does on a 800Mhz G4 under OSX. Things have slowed down in terms of general usage.
Right. If you get an older copy of VPC, and run in 9 with lots of RAM, it will work fine for most things.
but forget running VPC with XP on a Pismo without a processor upgrade -- it's impossibly slow.
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He can be fixed -- you can't.
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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What mapping program? I used to run ArcGIS 3 on my old 1 ghz 15" within Virtual PC, and it was frustratingly slow. It was unusable. I currently run ArcGIS 8 on a Pentium 4 machine, and when I really want to run the program on my PB (1.5 ghz 15"), I use Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection to hijack the Windows machine remotely. As others have said, you'd be better off by using a real PC for mapping.
K-Bat
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