Silvorgold Posted December 18, 2002 Share Posted December 18, 2002 (edited) New Features for Maximized Integration on VPC6* Speed improvement - up to 25% faster on Mac OS X* * Mac OS X Dock integration * Enhanced back-up support in Mac OS X * Improved USB printing support for increased compatibility * Video support for Apple's monitors, including the 23" Cinema Display * Self-contained configurations; makes installation on several machines a snap. looks like VPC6 is now available, if anyone here gets any experience with it, post back here and tell us about how it is :)http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc6m.html system requirements* Mac OS 9 ? - Any native G3 or G4 Macintosh with a CD-ROM drive ? - Mac OS 9.2.2 * Mac OS X ? - Requires a minimum 500MHz native G3 or G4 Macintosh with a CD-ROM drive ? - Mac OS X v. 10.1.5 or 10.2.1(Jaguar) or later * Optimal performance requires a future release of Mac OS X, L3 cache, NVIDIA Ge Force or ATI Radeon video card. Note: requirement for amount memory depends on guest OS being used Edited December 18, 2002 by Silvorgold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 Hey that looks pretty sweet. Especially the dock integration. Man, windows apps in the dock and the start menu. The 25% faster deal can't hurt either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted December 19, 2002 Veteran Share Posted December 19, 2002 woah. i'm liking that dock integration. man, if they can make windows rootless (like X, even though I'm sure the windowing system is different), that would be amazing!!!!! Still, I'm liking the prospects. I'll have to see how the speed improvment helps :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvorgold Posted December 19, 2002 Author Share Posted December 19, 2002 there was lots of rumors of a 5.1 (not 5.01) update of vpc to come out around the same time as jaguar back in the summer, as a huge speed update, but that never happened, but it looks like they finally brought a sweet update :), but it will probably still be pretty laggy for most people (with anything lower than a dual ghz probably or any non ddr ram model mac...but im not sure), if i could get vpc to run win 98 or 2k as fast as it would on my pc (466mhz celeron with 192 megs of ram) i would be happy :D..now all i need to do is either get the computer store to add the damn extra ram or get the darn 2 screws to come off (ya im using the right screw driver :p)... but hopefully v6 is a great update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickedkitten Veteran Posted December 19, 2002 Veteran Share Posted December 19, 2002 it is pooploads faster than 5. I'm digging it :D :happy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted December 20, 2002 Veteran Share Posted December 20, 2002 Oh yeah, one more thing. How the *bleep* did they do the dock start menu!!!!! I know adding images to a menu is possible in the dock (but through a closed API), but how the crap did they do that??!?!?!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timan Veteran Posted December 20, 2002 Veteran Share Posted December 20, 2002 ouch that start menu from the dock does look sweet! is the video faster? cause i think thats one thing that made xp so darn slow. but 2k ran nice on 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nummi Posted December 20, 2002 Share Posted December 20, 2002 That speed increase is only for Macs that have "Mac OS X - version 10.2.3 (Jaguar), L3 cache, NVIDIA Ge Force or ATI Radeon video card." That leaves my G4 400mhz and me in the dust. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebOrbiter Posted December 24, 2002 Share Posted December 24, 2002 I've got a G3 500Mhz iBook with 384MB of RAM running OS 10.1.5, I've tried running Win98 on VPC5 but its so slow I can barely do anything with it, what could I do to make it faster? Would an upgrade to 10.2, VPC6, or Win2000 help? Just trying to figure out how to squeeze all the speed I can out of this thing. :happy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted December 24, 2002 Veteran Share Posted December 24, 2002 the upgrade to 10.2.3 and VPC6 will according to Connectix improve performance by 25%. It's up to you whether to believe that or not. Also, Windows 2000 runs better in VPC then Win98, give that a try before upgrading your OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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