It works BUT..... - MJGrothaus--2008

I have the exact same system as you do. I'm giving Windows 384 of RAM and it runs GREAT for me. Speedier than a 2GHz Pentium 4.

I did a lot of tweaking in Windows itself: turning off drop shadows, etc and things launch as fast in VPC as they do in Tiger.

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Wednesday, June 29 2005 @ 07:40 PM PDT

Consider reviewing your settings and checking your system out - iain_collins

I think something must be up with your system before your getting performance anything like you describe. Perhaps you need more RAM in your MAC, to assign more or less RAM to your virtual PC, free up some diskspace or defrag your Mac hard disk with something like iDefrag. A hardware problem with your hard disk is also a possibility (though equally, it could be something as simple as a rogue process running on your system in the background).

I've just timed it and it takes less than 60 seconds to boot (or restore from a saved image on my 1.5 Ghz PowerBook w 1 GB RAM (with 512 MB assigned to VPC), and that's with several applications running (Safari, Terminal, Text Edit, xChat).

On your far superior system it should really fly if everything is working correctly, having enough RAM. Assigning the right about to virtual PC is vital(512 MB is good assuming you have at least 1 GB physical RAM). If you assign too little to Virtual PC and Windows will have to swap to the virtual disk (which will be appallingly slow), if you assign to much to your Virtual PC then your Mac will have to swap to disk (which will also slow things down noticeably).

Virtual PC isn't as fast as it used to be in the days when there was special acceleration for Windows 98 under Mac OS 9 (in version 4.0, or with version 3.0's enhanced graphics support for that matter), to the extent it was faster on a 500 Mhz PowerBook under Mac OS 9 than it is on a 1.5 Ghz PowerBook under Mac OS X, but it still shouldn't be _that_ slow.

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Thursday, June 30 2005 @ 03:30 AM PDT