Is Guest PC faster than VPC7? - Fredrik Andersson

No it's not.
But it's significantly cheaper, and seems to run non windows OSes alot better than VPC does.

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Monday, July 04 2005 @ 08:39 AM PDT

Is Guest PC faster than VPC7? - BlueDjinn

you can pretty much forget watching movies in Media Player or Quicktime. Listening to tunes in iTunes windoze version is as bad as hearing its "skipping" startup chime! No offense, but why in the world would you use the Windows versions of QuickTime or iTunes via an emulator instead of using the native Mac version?? Multimedia of any sort is bound to be sluggish--they can tweak and improve it as much as they can, but the bottom line is that this is a hardware EMULATOR, so there's always going to be lag. Apps such as VPC and GuestPC are best used for sundry stuff like cross-platform browser checks, data entry apps (QuickBooks, etc) and so forth.

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Tuesday, July 05 2005 @ 12:51 PM PDT

Is Guest PC faster than VPC7? - Fingal

I am using VPC7 on a dual 2GHz G5 with 2.5 GB RAM, almost entirely to use one Microsoft Access database but I do occasionally check a web site from IE for Windows. It is quite useable for me, even snappy by emulator standards. If you don't have about 1GB or more RAM in your iMac, that may be the problem. VPC is a huge RAM hog and becomes very sluggish if it doesn't get as much as it wants.

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Wednesday, September 14 2005 @ 07:17 AM PDT