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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / September 2006What shold I know B4 installing VirtualPC for MAC?
I only want to be able to run IE 7 and other windows versions of browsers on my MAC to check web site reliability for our web site, instead of having to commandeer a colleague's PC laptop. I use MAC OS X.3.9, G5, 1.8, 1 gig RAM. I have Virtual PC for MAC vs 7. Now given all I want to do with this, what should I expect re: slow performance on my mac - only when using V PC, or at all times? Can I indeed download and open things like IE 7? Do I have to have V PC running when I download this kind of windows only software? What else should I know? Thanks much KB >I only want to be able to run IE 7 and other windows versions of browsers on >my MAC to check web site reliability for our web site, instead of having to [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >given all I want to do with this, what should I expect re: slow performance >on my mac - only when using V PC, or at all times? VPC is an application, when it's not running, it will not impact the system. > Can I indeed download and >open things like IE 7? Yes. > Do I have to have V PC running when I download this >kind of windows only software? Yes >What else should I know? You can only install 1 version of IE in Windows.  SignatureCheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ I do not work for Microsoft. > >I only want to be able to run IE 7 and other windows versions of browsers on > >my MAC to check web site reliability for our web site, instead of having to [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > http://vpc.essjae.com/ > I do not work for Microsoft. But you can create 2 virtual machines......one using Windows with IE7...the other using Windows with IE6 Thanks very much for both your answers - I'll probably be back with more ?'s after I install this Virtual PC. KB > > >I only want to be able to run IE 7 and other windows versions of browsers on > > >my MAC to check web site reliability for our web site, instead of having to [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > But you can create 2 virtual machines......one using Windows with > IE7...the other using Windows with IE6 >> >I only want to be able to run IE 7 and other windows versions of browsers on >> >my MAC to check web site reliability for our web site, instead of having to [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >But you can create 2 virtual machines......one using Windows with >IE7...the other using Windows with IE6 And that requires to licenses of Windows. SignatureCheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ I do not work for Microsoft. Well - Took about 3 hours to finally get all software installed and IE 7 to download...now that it did, my web site plays at about 20% speed, ie, swf files, QT videos (which don't even load). So what can I do to get this Virtual PC to run smoothly and correctly on my mac - G5, 1 gig RAM, 1.8? Need help Thanks KB VPC for Mac provides an emulated Intel processor. Your performance is always going to be much less than what you would get on a standard Windows machine. There are some adjustments you can make, such as shutting down all your Mac programs while running the Windows virtual machine, but fundamentally the guest virtual machine cannot perform at anything like the speed of your PPC processor. > Well - Took about 3 hours to finally get all software installed and IE 7 > to [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Thanks > KB Thanks Colin, I feared as much...hardly worth installing since all I wanted it for was to preview our web site on PC browsers... KB That may work out. If you have several licenses for Windows, you can create separate virtual machines in which you can use IE6 in one and IE7 in another. The problem is that it costs to find out. It would be cheaper by far to buy an eMachine for $300 or $400 and use the free VPC for Windows to run a second copy of Windows with IE7 installed. You would still need the second Windows license, but VPC for Windows virtualizes the cpu, not emulates it like the PPC Mac version does, and the speed of the guest vm is very close to the native speed of the machine. You could do it with 512MB of ram but I recommend a little more. > Thanks Colin, I feared as much...hardly worth installing since all I > wanted > it for was to preview our web site on PC browsers... > > KB Thanks for the info. KB > Thanks Colin, I feared as much...hardly worth installing since all I wanted > it for was to preview our web site on PC browsers... > > KB Which, as a web designer, is the only reason I run Windows at all- just to see how PC IE FF, and Netscape handle my work - especially since IE uses non-compliant code. Use it on a much slower machine, too. Works fine for that, just not very fast. SignatureTo reply by email, remove the word "space" |
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