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Branislav Jankovic

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Virtual Pc 7 Vs Bochs
« 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?
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Branislav

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« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2005, 07:16:30 pm »
Virtual PC will be many times faster than BOCHS.

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« Reply #2 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.

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Curt

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« Reply #3 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.

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« Last Edit: March 03, 2005, 12:04:48 pm by padishah_emperor »
Left Linux and Linux PDAs... sorry, got boring.  Switched to Mac.