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From: Salmon Egg on 25 Jan 2010 13:11 I bought Virtual PC with Windows X Pro (IIRC). Is that of any use with a modernMac using Intel chips and Snow Leopard? I have had little incentive to switch over to Windows on an occasional basis. Recently, I was thinking of running something like TurboPascal. Bill -- An old man would be better off never having been born.
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kir=E1ly?= on 25 Jan 2010 13:30 Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I bought Virtual PC with Windows X Pro (IIRC). Is that of any use with a > modernMac using Intel chips and Snow Leopard? No. It's less than useless. Virtual PC, being a PowerPC app, will run in Rosetta, and then run Windows under emulation. Extremely slow and inefficient. Use Boot Camp from Apple (free) or try Parellels to run Windows natively on your Mac. -- K. Lang may your lum reek.
From: nospam on 25 Jan 2010 13:31 In article <SalmonEgg-C3329E.10110525012010(a)news60.forteinc.com>, Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I bought Virtual PC with Windows X Pro (IIRC). Is that of any use with a > modernMac using Intel chips and Snow Leopard? none whatsoever. it will not work, at all. unless you have a old powerpc mac, you just wasted your money. for intel macs, you need vmware or parallels, or dual boot via boot camp.
From: nospam on 25 Jan 2010 13:32 In article <zrl7n.61014$Db2.9398(a)edtnps83>, Kir�ly <me(a)home.spamsucks.ca> wrote: > No. It's less than useless. Virtual PC, being a PowerPC app, will run > in Rosetta, and then run Windows under emulation. Extremely slow and > inefficient. actually, it won't run at all.
From: Andy Hewitt on 25 Jan 2010 13:33
nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article <SalmonEgg-C3329E.10110525012010(a)news60.forteinc.com>, > Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > I bought Virtual PC with Windows X Pro (IIRC). Is that of any use with a > > modernMac using Intel chips and Snow Leopard? > > none whatsoever. it will not work, at all. unless you have a old > powerpc mac, you just wasted your money. > > for intel macs, you need vmware or parallels, or dual boot via boot > camp. Or for free, VirtualBox. -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/> |