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Intel Processor Card for Powermac?
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Join Date: Dec 1999
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Howdy, I am about to purchase a powermac but would be interested in occasionally running a few windows programs that I need for work. I have VPC5 running on my Powerbook 667 and it runs the software I need really slowly (basically unuseable)and running Windows 98 under VPC5 it crashes every few minutes.
I seem to recall a while back that there were PCI cards available with intel processors that alowed one to run windows at the hardware level while also running MacOS. Has anyone heard of such a thing for the new powermacs? If so, does it run under 10.2? I just don't have the room to keep two computers on my desk.
Thanks for any info.
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one
pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside,
thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, shouting GERONIMO!"
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Orange Micro made some cards like that, but I'm almost sure they won't work under OSX. (I've got a couple of them sitting around collecting dust - I was going to put them up on eBay but I keep on forgetting...)
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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Wintel compatipility cards died a long time ago. However, you should consider getting an inexpensive Wintel PC and accessing it via Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection. This will be marginally more expensive than VPC, but from what I hear it works really well. (See threads about RDC here and in the AppleInsider Forum.)
PS: I missed the note that you didn't have space for two computers on your desk. With RDC, you can stick the Intel box anywhere you want, as long as it is within reach of an Ethernet cable (or AirPort).
Escher
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Last edited by escher; Sep 24, 2002 at 04:02 PM.
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"The only laptop computer that's useful is the one you have with you."
Until we get a 3 lbs sub-PowerBook, the 12-inch PowerBook will do.
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Trapped in Amber
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<b>Howdy, I am about to purchase a powermac but would be interested in occasionally running a few windows programs that I need for work. I have VPC5 running on my Powerbook 667 and it runs the software I need really slowly (basically unuseable)and running Windows 98 under VPC5 it crashes every few minutes.</b>
Regarding VPC's speed, you may want to update to 10.2.1 if you haven't already. It's supposed to offer some improvements with VPC. There are also a couple of threads in OS X Software about speeding up VPC with OS X.
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Escher, I'm curious about this Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection. How does it work? Can you see Windows XP run in a window under OS X? Can you display graphics, sound, etc?
Is the speed of the program mainly dependent on the mac client or PC "server" or both. Can one play PC games on your mac or run graphics intensive programs, etc. Getting a windoze box but running it through a powermac might not be so bad.
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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i use rdc and it is a nice fast way to access wintel boxes... but for high framerate games it is going to be a no-go because the network bandwidth will not allow for that much data to be exchanged quickly...
sound from your wintel will play on your mac... and like i said the speed is going to be dependant on the wintel to a point then a bottleneck will be reached because of network bandwidth
hope that helps,
phang
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