Re:What I want to know - We need benchmarks!
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This is exactly why I tought benchmarks would do the trick. Something like the ones PC Magazine (or other ones in the same vein) uses would do, just to give an idea about the general performance of the emulated machine on certain tasks. Frankly, it doesn't really matter how precise they are; they can at least tell us how different disk and video performance is on a DP PowerMac vs an iBook...;-)
At least, it's a start. Even without entering the complexities of emulation in general, it would at least give a trend, and it does make more sense than flipping arms to see if one can fly!
Thanks anyways to everyone who did post intelligent results and constructive remarks along this thread, since know know a little better how well VPC "looks like" in a user's life... and that's appreciated!
Re:What I want to know - We need benchmarks!
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It would also be interresting to see exactly how well do different Mac models perform on Virtual PC (let's say on Windows 2000) according to popular benchmark applications. This way, we could roughly compare a certain type of PC with it's emulated Mac equivalent. The same could be done with Bochs, and would probably give good indices of how well both emulators performs.
Since my main PC broke down, I've been looking torward Macs and since I still have a few softwares that would require Windows, I'm really wondering just how much "slower" the Macs really are when emulating a PC.
So, since I don't yet own a Mac, I can't do the testing and post results. But I'm really interrested to see a review/site/post that has benchmark results and that can compare PCs to emulated PCs on Macs...;-)
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This is exactly why I tought benchmarks would do the trick. Something like the ones PC Magazine (or other ones in the same vein) uses would do, just to give an idea about the general performance of the emulated machine on certain tasks. Frankly, it doesn't really matter how precise they are; they can at least tell us how different disk and video performance is on a DP PowerMac vs an iBook... ;-)
At least, it's a start. Even without entering the complexities of emulation in general, it would at least give a trend, and it does make more sense than flipping arms to see if one can fly!
Thanks anyways to everyone who did post intelligent results and constructive remarks along this thread, since know know a little better how well VPC "looks like" in a user's life... and that's appreciated!
It would also be interresting to see exactly how well do different Mac models perform on Virtual PC (let's say on Windows 2000) according to popular benchmark applications. This way, we could roughly compare a certain type of PC with it's emulated Mac equivalent. The same could be done with Bochs, and would probably give good indices of how well both emulators performs. Since my main PC broke down, I've been looking torward Macs and since I still have a few softwares that would require Windows, I'm really wondering just how much "slower" the Macs really are when emulating a PC. So, since I don't yet own a Mac, I can't do the testing and post results. But I'm really interrested to see a review/site/post that has benchmark results and that can compare PCs to emulated PCs on Macs... ;-)