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TBLUHP - 23 Aug 2006 02:54 GMT

i currently use windows xp on virtual pc 7 on my mac. My mac has 1ghz
g4 1gb of ram. I set the windows xp ram to 256 (half of 512) if i set
the ram to 32-60 will it still run?

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Richard Cardona - 23 Aug 2006 03:02 GMT

> i currently use windows xp on virtual pc 7 on my mac. My mac has 1ghz
> g4 1gb of ram. I set the windows xp ram to 256 (half of 512) if i set
> the ram to 32-60 will it still run?

Microsoft officially recommends 128mb, 64mb minimum (some features may
be impaired). XP runs well with 256mb, if it all possible I would stay
there.

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TBLUHP - 23 Aug 2006 16:04 GMT

what about windows 2000?

> > i currently use windows xp on virtual pc 7 on my mac. My mac has 1ghz
> > g4 1gb of ram. I set the windows xp ram to 256 (half of 512) if i set
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> be impaired). XP runs well with 256mb, if it all possible I would stay
> there.

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Colin Barnhorst - 23 Aug 2006 17:51 GMT

Windows 2000 will run fine in 128MB. You can go down to 64MB if you really
need to.

> what about windows 2000?
>> > i currently use windows xp on virtual pc 7 on my mac. My mac has 1ghz
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>> be impaired). XP runs well with 256mb, if it all possible I would stay
>> there.

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Paul Power - 29 Aug 2006 19:35 GMT

> Windows 2000 will run fine in 128MB. You can go down to 64MB if you really
> need to.
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> >> be impaired). XP runs well with 256mb, if it all possible I would stay
> >> there.

It really doesn't make any sense to go below 256MB. This doesn't mean
that allocating 256MB of RAM to Windows will forever deprive your Mac
of that amount of RAM. It simply means that when Windows is running, it
will have 256MB of RAM to access for running Windows applications

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