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ASZ993
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Join Date: Feb 2005
 
2005-03-21, 20:32

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Originally Posted by macmxroolz
Thank you everyone very much for your advice. I feel a lot better about my future purchase.

I think 768 MB would be adequate for me except for the fact I will have to run Access 2000 in Virtual PC at times. This would be additional insurance that it works smoothly. I would try to do this as infrequently as possible. It would also be placed on an external firewire hard drive. Does anybody have experience with Virtual PC on an IBook? I would probably use Windows 98 (for lower hardware demands) and Office 2000 for the version of Access I need...

The next sentence many of you may find kind of disturbing (but some may find funny). Windows 2000 runs very smoothly on a dual G5 Power PC. We did it to test Access 2000 in Virtual PC. But I would never, ever, ever buy a Mac just to run Microsoft Windows.
Just use Windows 2000. It's less demanding than XP and more stable than 98. Alternatively,can you convert it to anything that is available for OSX?
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