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Here is a short review I just did on Virtual PC – as there are a few fx products that don’t run on the MAC OSX. I thought some of you might like to read it.
Virtual PC
As an long time Mac user will tell you, Virtual PC defeats the object of the exercise, – which is to not be running Windows in the first place. But it turns out that even with Steve Jobs’ Uber digital i-life, – there are still some programs you just can’t do without on your Mac, and that only run on Windows. Hard to believe oh faithful Mac followers – but sadly true.
Virtual PC was recently bought by Microsoft and is now bundled with Office Mac. Virtual C 7 is a great improvement over the previous version for two primary reasons, firstly it is much faster, perhaps this is due to all Macs now being faster – but still the program is very workable, and secondly because Virtual PC7 comes with Windows XP Pro, and not Windows 98 as with the previous version, and if you have to run Windows under OSX – at least you should have the latest version of the darn thing.
The installation is simple and easy, even if the manual tries its hardest to make it seem like it will be more complex than it is. Airport, ethernet and printing all automatically work, bridging the world inside your Virtual PC to the rest of your Mac infrastructure. A strangely odd START icon appears in your dock after installation allowing general access to XP- or direct access to one of your XP applications. The whole Virtual PC can be hidden into the Dock like any other application and runs inside a normal mac window like any Mac OS 9 style application or via command return – it enters full screen mode, although at present it doesn’t seem to be able to expand to to fill the wide screen full width of a 17 ” laptop screen, with the correct display screen ratio. Images and files can be dragged and dropped into your XP window, just as with any window.
Importantly Virtual PC will work with the latest G5s, so if you have to resort to XP and your a dedicated die hard – Woz was right – type, then at least Virtual PC is fast, reliable and from all our testing extremely stable.
Mike
co-founderOne note, Virtual PC won’t work on computers with more than 2 Gigs of RAM, so remove the extra memory before you use it.
eltopo wrote:One note, Virtual PC won’t work on computers with more than 2 Gigs of RAM, so remove the extra memory before you use it.There was just an update posted today by Microsoft to fix this problem (at least on G5 computers):
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