[ZMOUSTACHE]

Hi all,

I was recently given a Powerbook G4 400.
I've upgraded it to OS 9.2. I would love to upgrade it to OS X but don't know where to get it. I've never played around with Mac's and I'm just getting my feet wet.

I was wondering if there is a program that you can run on Mac to be able to load and run Windows Apps.

Thanks for any feedback

Z

[lilwip]

There are a few windows emulators for Macintosh's out there. I don't even begin to know which ones work. I would do a google search for Windows Emulators and see what you come up with.

[MuckSavage]

Virtual PC by Connectix. We use it at my office here. Well, other people do but I don't.

It's not bad, I can run Windows2k under Mac OSX10.2.3, and it runs ok. I believe the equivilent of a Pentium 2 processor. (I have a powermac G4 733)

If you depend on it a lot, I would think on your powerbook it would be perhaps unbearably slow. There have been speed improvements in the new version 6, but overall it is just an emulator, and you can't expect it to run like it was on a pc. (Version 6 is for X only.)

A good place to get X is from an apple dealer. I think it is around 129 bucks, but IMO is hugely superior to 9 in every way. You can also buy it online at apple.com.

[epec254]

You can get it from amazon for about 100 or less after rebate. X beats OS 9, period.

I use Virtual PC 5 - it runs 2k pretty well, and XP ok. VPC 6 is supposed to be faster, but who knows.

[ZMOUSTACHE]

Ok, I've upgraded to OS X. It is pretty cool.
In checking on Virtual PC, version 6 say's you need at least a 500 Processor and 256 RAM.
I only have a 400 and 128, will earlier versions of Virtual PC run on this?

Thanks

Z.

[MuckSavage]

The minimum is a 500mhz G3 processor, you have a G4. It should work fine.

I wouldn't use an earlier version, as you would be running an emulator inside of an emulator (virtual pc inside of the classic OS 9 environment) and it would run pretty bad. I also don't think the classic mode will handle virtual pc very well. I suggest you just buy some more ram. Here is some ram from a company I always buy from. There are two versions, a top and bottom profile chip, but both are 112 bucks for 512 meg. If you can afford it, I would just buy the ram. OSX improves quite a bit performance wise with more ram.

My work mac is a 733 tower with 1.5gb of ram, and it runs quite well.

[ZMOUSTACHE]

I have 2 versions of Virtual PC, but they state Virtual PC for Windows.
Are these the wrong ones.....shouldn't it be the opposite?
Virtual PC for Mac