Danny
This particular customer is the marketing department of a significant regional performing arts venue. He has a Mac because he perceives (rightly or wrongly) that it is better than a PC for design layout for marketing material. (The rest of the network is PCs).
However he also wishes to get access to the PC-only Box-Office system, and the venue management software (wot we provide) and I suggested that he tries the emulator.
However, what does surprise me is that the review suggested by
ORAC says that he should get P400 performance and frankly that would be perfectly adequate; what he actually gets is more akin to treacle (Control Panel takes 2 mins to load).
I do find the combination of
All you need is Virtual PC for the Mac and you can run any PC package you already have in a seperate window
and
I fail to see where I ever advocated using a Mac running a PC emulator solely to run PC programmes
a little disingenuous, but we'll let it pass because it doesn't seem worth the candle arguing about.
What would be more interesting would be to pursue
hwel's point about the extra memory allocation. Do you (all of you) think that he should up the memory on the G4 to more than 640Mb if he is going top allocate 256 to Virtual PC and still wants to use the G4 for his design work, WP etc?
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