VPC7 w/ XP or 2000 on iBook?
I hope to make the switch to Apple this holiday season. However, I work in a mixed Apple/PC environment and I need to be able to run some PC software. I wanted to know if there was a performace and/or stability difference between Windows 2000 or Windows XP on a G4 iBook. I have used Windows 2000 on my own PC's because it was less CPU intensive and generally had fewer gimicks that could crash the system. I was just wondering if the same holds true running VPC7 on a Mac. Any experiences?
TIA,
Whiteshark
TIA,
Whiteshark
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I have some in-house software I need to run on windows. For daily work I'll use a pc. I'll use VPC when I don't have the pc with me or if I need to do things like take screen shots for making reports.
If possible, get a demo of what you need to do before committing to it.
One alternative is to put the PC under your desk and control it with Microsoft Remote Desktop.
www.microsoft.com/mac/download/misc/rdc.asp
This will be fast enough and it lets you run with just one monitor, keyboard and mouse.
Stick to the slimmest OS's you can if you want to extract performance. Under all cases, that means something before XP (unless it has some sort of functionality that cannot be patched into an earlier OS).