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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / July 2004Using virtualpc with any windows application (just as a delphi IDE)
Hello, I've been a windows user for some years, and in the last year a linux user. Nevertheless i've seeing imac and ibooks, and i would like to adquire one of those. My problem is that i'm a university student, and my 3º and 4º years are programming disciplines in wich we use Delphi, oracle, VC++ etc. So my thought was if with virtualPC, i could use those tools and using for all the rest MacOSX. I would like to know if windows applications run smoothly in virtualPC (are they usable). If so, what are the minimum requirements for that. Thanks in advance, Paulo Cruz Virtual PC is fine for most business-type applications. Windows games are not suitable, due to the CPU and graphics requirements, which impose too heavy requirements on the emulator to be really useable. Providing that the system requirements of your development applications are modest you should be able to run Virtual PC without problems. I'm not sure whether Oracle fits this, however, although there is a version of Oracle for OS X. Peter Walker > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Thanks in advance, > Paulo Cruz >> I would like to know if windows applications run smoothly in virtualPC >> (are they usable). If so, what are the minimum requirements for that. That's subjective. What runs acceptably to one person may not be considered acceptable by another. Just reading performance threads on this newsgroup should provide enough evidence of that. >> My problem is that i'm a university student, and my >> 3º and 4º years are programming disciplines in wich we use Delphi, >> oracle, VC++ etc. Personally, I'd stick with native Windows hardware for your programming classes. By running VPC all you're doing is adding another layer of potential issues/debugging. And you can bet that if you run into any kind of problems and ask your instructor, tech support, etc for help, all you'll get is "we don't support that on a Mac/VPC/etc". Wait until you graduate, then get your iBook Steve Jain, Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC for Windows Website: http://www.essjae.com *** All posts are provided AS-IS, no warranty, no QoS *** I read once that someone had better compatibility in VPC than real hardware. >> I would like to know if windows applications run smoothly in virtualPC >> (are they usable). If so, what are the minimum requirements for that. That's subjective. What runs acceptably to one person may not be considered acceptable by another. Just reading performance threads on this newsgroup should provide enough evidence of that. >> My problem is that i'm a university student, and my >> 3º and 4º years are programming disciplines in wich we use Delphi, >> oracle, VC++ etc. Personally, I'd stick with native Windows hardware for your programming classes. By running VPC all you're doing is adding another layer of potential issues/debugging. And you can bet that if you run into any kind of problems and ask your instructor, tech support, etc for help, all you'll get is "we don't support that on a Mac/VPC/etc". Wait until you graduate, then get your iBook Steve Jain, Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC for Windows Website: http://www.essjae.com *** All posts are provided AS-IS, no warranty, no QoS *** |
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