[matt]

I am thinking of purchasing Virtual PC 7 for my 1.8Ghz iMac G5 (with 1GB RAM). I tried VPC 5 a while back on my old eMac and just running one app was horrible. I have read that MS has optimized VPC 7 for G5s, and my iMac has more memory and CPU power...but will I still experience that annoying lag this time around? I don't want to do anything fancy, just run MS Money (f'ing hate Quicken) or run a web browser (FireFox of course).

I don't want to have that mouse lag or the refresh of the graphics lag that I saw on VPC 5 on my eMac. Has anyone tested VPC 7 on a single CPU G5?

[ast3r3x]

Why would you run FireFox from VPC? There is a mac version...

[torifile]

VPC 7 on my powerbook works pretty well. It's actually bearable. Get a lot of RAM. It makes things much better. I'm talking 1gig +. You'll appreciate it.

[matt]

good point astrx about running FF on VPC 7. It was a bad example. The 2 reasons I want VPC are for MS Money 2005 and TradeStation. Both products are Windows only.

[torifile]

Originally Posted by matt good point astrx about running FF on VPC 7. It was a bad example. The 2 reasons I want VPC are for MS Money 2005 and TradeStation. Both products are Windows only.

I use Money 2004 without a problem. It's pretty slow at first, but picks up steam once VPC gets the RAM it needs.

And I've found that my eMac runs VPC much better than my powerbook even though the powerbook is faster. I don't know if it's a RAM thing or a hard drive speed thing or both. But you should have no problems with the iMac.

[Gizzer]

I run VPC 7 on an iMac G5 without any probs. Sounds like I've got the same specs as you too: 1.8Ghz, 1Gig RAM - So you should be ok.

[scratt]

It's bearable on my Dual G5..
If M$ did optimise it they certainly made about as good a job of it as they do with most things!