VPC 5.0.2 available
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Version 5.0.2 is supposed to bring an improvement in performance while running in OS X. If anybody has upgraded your dual 1GHz G4's with this upgrade, I'm interested to hear if it works better.
Thanks.
Version 5.0.2 is supposed to bring an improvement in performance while running in OS X. If anybody has upgraded your dual 1GHz G4's with this upgrade, I'm interested to hear if it works better.
Thanks.
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It's MUCH improved in OSX. Menus, Explorer, and the general "feel" is overall more responsive but video playback is worse than ever!!
Okay, here's my story. Video playback was great in OS9 in VPC 4 and 5. In OSX, VPC 5 took a step back, making a skip or stutter about every two seconds. In VPC 5.0.2, the skipping and stuttering is horrendous. Here's an example.
I played <a href="http://brad.project-think.com/movies/DBZ-I_maCucumber-Brak.mpeg"; target="_blank">this MPEG clip</a> in WMP (the older version, not the new ugly bulky one) on Win98. Thanks to the wonders of Snapz Pro X, I captured <a href="http://brad.project-think.com/movies/VPC-video-playback.mov"; target="_blank">this movie of it's actual playback</a>. The audio and video are real. That's how it actually plays in VPC.Pretty shabby, huh?
Watch as the video skips! Listen to the audio echo! Marvel as the timeline jumps into the future!!
That's one of my key reasons for having VPC. Aside from the occasional windows-only app like Morpheus or having to check HTML code across platforms, I also use VPC to play the occasional MPEG or Windows Media file that won't work on Mac OS X. Oh well...
Windows 98SE and ME run like crap in VPC 5, but 2000 and XP run pretty nicely.
So you think the doggedness is also due to the OS and not just VPC? Or did this update do more to help out 2000?
but yes, it works okay here. It's not going to amaze you with speed or anything, but it doesn't skip like starfleetx's example. I tried to capture the video with Snapz Pro but I haven't figured out how to capture sound...
Isn't that software piracy? If you did legally obtain your software, please disregard the following:
Just because you don't want to support Microsoft doesn't mean you should steal from them. Just don't use their products.
Its the criminal actions like yours that keep software prices high and keep innovation lower. I am disgusted at software pirates and hope that all of you don't do the same and follow this terrible and illegal activity.[/QB]<hr></blockquote>
Simmer down now cal. I hardly think that any Microsoft programers are hungry because of piracy. If Microsoft didn't want to charge you so much they don't have to. Have you seen the salaries those guys make? Sure they tell you things like "it keeps software prices high and innovation low" but they never think twice about the money they are making off of us when they charge those extravigent fees!
Microsoft holds these little sessions all over colleges to make sure people don't stray from Windows.
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I'm on a G4 DP500. Movies played very well in OS9 on VPC4 and 5. They played fairly well in OSX with 5.0 and 5.0.1 but have turned to utter crap with 5.0.2.
I think I'm going to see what I can do to find a license of Win2k somewhere now...
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Do you think it will work better under os 9 ?
Anyway, this iMac (which has a stunning display and did not look too small at all) had VPC 5 on it running Windows XP home. So, I put it in full screen mode to see what it can do. Well, lets just say that this is beyond slow, it's painfully slow! Slow enough to give someone an anxiety attack! All I did was launch Internet Explorer and it took literally over 1 minute to launch only to deliver a very unstable performance. Now, Windows XP on a fairly new machine is incredibly fast. Internet Explorer on my XP Machine takes literally 1 second to load. What the hell was Connectix thinking releases this program at this stage? Granted, I am sure the store model did not have the update that we are speaking of, but since the update only gives marginal speed improvements you would think that this $200 program is still in beta stage!
If you guys are wondering which version of Windows to use with VPC, wait for Connectix to fix the speed issues with 5 and use XP. It's incomparable to '98 or ME in terms of speed, functionality, clean design, well organized layout with a nice updated look and feel. Above all, it's incredibly stable. I haven't had a system crash since the day I installed it (and this was 6 months ago as an upgrade!)
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Simmer down now cal. I hardly think that any Microsoft programers are hungry because of piracy. If Microsoft didn't want to charge you so much they don't have to. Have you seen the salaries those guys make? Sure they tell you things like "it keeps software prices high and innovation low" but they never think twice about the money they are making off of us when they charge those extravigent fees!</strong><hr></blockquote>
The fact is that technology companies have layed off tons of people, leaving people's families stuggling and children underprivilaged. I'm sure Microsoft has worked hard to produce the software, why not give them what they ask for it or not use it at all. You do have a choice, you don't have to use their products and regardless of the value you always still have a choice.
And for Eugene, sorry about that... I took it the wrong way.
Its the criminal actions like yours that keep software prices high and keep innovation lower. I am disgusted at software pirates and hope that all of you don't do the same and follow this terrible and illegal activity.
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Realistically I don't understand what the difference is between not using a microsoft product and using a pirated version of that product. In either case microsoft gets nothing. I don't advocate piracy, but I don't always understand arguments like this against it. The music industry claims that billions of dollars is lost to MP3 trading and the like, but a huge portion of that was arrived at by just seeing how much it would have cost if people had bought the music they downloaded instead of just getting it for free. The thing is, these people would never have bought most of this stuff if they were paying for it. That's not to say that MP3 hasn't hurt the industry, or that it is ok to pirate things. I do think that you can make a pretty good argument that morally you are bound to pay for things you use.
Anyway, as for Virtual PC, I haven't seen a huge increase in speed with the update -- maybe a small one. It's really too bad since version 4 was pretty darn usable even on my Powerbook G3.
You don't always have a choice. I own the Microsoft products I choose to use (Excel). However, I refuse to pay for Word and PowerPoint just because people insist on sending me files in these formats. Both of these programs suck. I don't want to use them and I refuse to pay for them just because some people (and government agencies) can't figure out how to create forms in PDF format (for example).
Isn't that software piracy? If you did legally obtain your software, please disregard the following:
Just because you don't want to support Microsoft doesn't mean you should steal from them. Just don't use their products.
Its the criminal actions like yours that keep software prices high and keep innovation lower. I am disgusted at software pirates and hope that all of you don't do the same and follow this terrible and illegal activity.
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Go blow it out your a$$, bitch.
Most people who pirate software don't have the money to buy it, so either way the developer is not going to get a sale. Furthermore who gives a rat's a$$ if someone pirates M$ software? Not me, for sure!
If you want to be a cop, go to police academy. Otherwise quit worrying about other's affairs and mind your own business, you snoopy bitch.