[Bill Kinkle]

I have an opportunity to get an older 400mhz G4 PB for my wife who will be using it primarily for surfing the web and virtual PC for a PC only app she uses for work. Will a 400 G4 run Panther and VPC adequately? Thanks for your opinions.

[SEkker]

Panther will be fine. You might want to add 512 MB or more of RAM to help with the speed.

I cannot speak to VPC -- but I think it'd be slow.

[cenutrio]

I own a PB 400/40 GB 5,400 rpm/1 GB RAM running panther.

It still is a sweet machine. Handles everything I ask with dignity. Even my short movies (less than 20 minutes long) or photoshop/illustrator posters and visuals I need to prepare for my research. Again, it is a capable machine. However, I never used VPC and I do not expect performance would be any good.

This is a 4 years old computer than runs OS X panther admirably well, but asking to simulate XP or windows 2000 at the very same time (all systems newer than the computer) may be asking a bit too much.

If you have a windows system though, you can run remote desktop with quite good performance.

good luck