VPC 7 on a 600 MHz G3

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lars - 31 Oct 2005 21:57 GMT

I am considering to buy the Office 2004 for Mac Professional Edition
including the Virtual PC for Mac Version 7 and Windows XP.
I run a 600 MHz PowerPC G3, Bus speed 100 MHz, 768 MB SDRAM, Mac OS
10.2.8.
The system requirements for both the Office 2004 and for the VPC 7
according to Microsoft are a 700 MHz native PowerPC G3, G4 or G5
processor, Apple Mac OS X version 10.2.8 - 10.4, and 512 MB RAM.
(http://www.microsoft.com/mac/howtobuy.aspx?pid=sysreq#vpc7)

Does this mean Virtual PC wouldn't run on my iMac?

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Steve Jain - 31 Oct 2005 22:55 GMT

>I am considering to buy the Office 2004 for Mac Professional Edition
>including the Virtual PC for Mac Version 7 and Windows XP.
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>Does this mean Virtual PC wouldn't run on my iMac?

No, it will run, but it will be so slow you won't want to use it.

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VPC 7 on a 600 MHz G3