That would be strange. My iBook 800 G4 / 768 Mb runs the like of XP / Office entirely tolerably using virtual PC. It's sufficiently fast to get a USB wi-fi thing with "XP only" drivers running and shifting a couple of hundred K per second, and to have some retro UFO: Enemy Unknown running along in XP's DOS emulation mode.
I've found the best way to get some extra speed on the go is to set the 'guest' OS to a good whack of RAM, like 700 mb, and to switch off virtual memory in XP. XP handling paging really does slow it down.
My major complaint about VPC6 is that it gets the computer too hot to keep on your lap in minutes, and causes the battery remaining to drop from about 4 hours to 30 minutes.
There's nothing wrong with connecting a dial-up modem over USB, either. My (rev A) iMac modem died when the telephone lines outside got hit by lightning. £100 in the apple shop to get it fixed. An extra £20 on an external modem to take the shock in the first place would have been a fantastic investment.
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That would be strange. My iBook 800 G4 / 768 Mb runs the like of XP / Office entirely tolerably using virtual PC. It's sufficiently fast to get a USB wi-fi thing with "XP only" drivers running and shifting a couple of hundred K per second, and to have some retro UFO: Enemy Unknown running along in XP's DOS emulation mode.
I've found the best way to get some extra speed on the go is to set the 'guest' OS to a good whack of RAM, like 700 mb, and to switch off virtual memory in XP. XP handling paging really does slow it down.
My major complaint about VPC6 is that it gets the computer too hot to keep on your lap in minutes, and causes the battery remaining to drop from about 4 hours to 30 minutes.
There's nothing wrong with connecting a dial-up modem over USB, either. My (rev A) iMac modem died when the telephone lines outside got hit by lightning. £100 in the apple shop to get it fixed. An extra £20 on an external modem to take the shock in the first place would have been a fantastic investment.
Well, I think that's funny.