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Title: Virtual Pc 7 Vs Bochs
Post by: Branislav Jankovic on February 10, 2005, 02:50:19 am

Hy to everybody,
I need to run PC programs on my new iMac G5. Does anyone now the difference between Virtual PC 7 and BOCHS? Where can I find some tests on both?
Thanks,
Branislav

Title: Virtual Pc 7 Vs Bochs
Post by: JohnKiniston on February 10, 2005, 07:16:30 pm

Virtual PC will be many times faster than BOCHS.

Title: Virtual Pc 7 Vs Bochs
Post by: ccrandal69 on March 03, 2005, 11:18:44 am

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Virtual PC will be many times faster than BOCHS.
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I also just upgraded to an iMac-G5 1.8GHz machine with 1GB RAM.  I have VPC 6 running on my Powerbook G5 1.33GHz with 768MB.  I usually allocate half of my memory to VPC, so it's currently running with 384MB.

Would anyone be able to tell me how much of a performance boost I'm going to get from VPC7 on my iMac versus what I have on my Powerbook?  I'd like to run VS.NET on my iMac (for work reasons ONLY!!), but it's such a resource hog I'm not even sure my iMac G5 could run it through VPC7.  And, I'd hate to spend $129 on VPC only to find out it's still too dang slow.

Thanks
Curt

Title: Virtual Pc 7 Vs Bochs
Post by: padishah_emperor on March 03, 2005, 12:04:25 pm

Curt, I believe VPC7 is optimised for the G5, so I'd imagine it would be a wee bit faster.

-Francis-