VPC 7.0 supports G5


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According to macslash.org the next version of Office for mac (2004) will include VPC 7.0 which includes G5 compatibility.

Apparently, this information is available only on the microsoft france site at the moment.

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Can you run any Windows XP/PC application on Virtual PC 7.0? including games?

yeah i believe so

even though you can't... you should ask "Can you run any OS X application on Windows XP/PC?" :shifty:

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Just about, but games you might want to leave out.

Only "just about"? So there are Windows Apps that cannot run on VP7?

And why would you want to leave games out?

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Only "just about"? So there are Windows Apps that cannot run on VP7?

And why would you want to leave games out?

No, there are not apps that cannot run, it's just that it is very slow, so if you are going to rely on it for some very processor/memory intensive applications, it might not run so well.

You would want to leave games out because it is so slow. You can only allocate so much RAM to vpc and as far as I know, vpc cannot take advantage of 3d technologies like openGL, and if it can, it is extremely slow.

On a 1ghz powerbook using vpc6 with windows XP, I would compare it to using a lower end pentium 2 age computer if that. It's not like it is natively running windows or anything. If it was that good, don't you think that macintosh market share would be a little higher?

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No, there are not apps that cannot run, it's just that it is very slow, so if you are going to rely on it for some very processor/memory intensive applications, it might not run so well.

You would want to leave games out because it is so slow. You can only allocate so much RAM to vpc and as far as I know, vpc cannot take advantage of 3d technologies like openGL, and if it can, it is extremely slow.

On a 1ghz powerbook using vpc6 with windows XP, I would compare it to using a lower end pentium 2 age computer if that. It's not like it is natively running windows or anything. If it was that good, don't you think that macintosh market share would be a little higher?

true. i have heard that it is slow. what if you were running it on a dual G5?

if you could somehow "assign" one processor to handle the task of emulating a Windows PC, then you'd have one whole 2Ghz G5 processor left to run 3D games not to say everything else well! right?

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i know that vpc7 would work on the g5, but i didn't know vpc7 would be included with office... will it be bundled with the student edition?

No, it only comes on the Professional edition.

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Wouldn't MS have an increased incentive to make WinXP run faster on the Mac? It would surely increase sales of WinXP and other applications on that platform. The only people that lose are the PC makers, and MS sure as hell don't care about them do they?

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No, there are not apps that cannot run, it's just that it is very slow, so if you are going to rely on it for some very processor/memory intensive applications, it might not run so well.

You would want to leave games out because it is so slow. You can only allocate so much RAM to vpc and as far as I know, vpc cannot take advantage of 3d technologies like openGL, and if it can, it is extremely slow.

On a 1ghz powerbook using vpc6 with windows XP, I would compare it to using a lower end pentium 2 age computer if that. It's not like it is natively running windows or anything. If it was that good, don't you think that macintosh market share would be a little higher?

I know this would cost a fortune and no average joe would ever buy this much memory at once, but if one were to purchase a Dual 2.0GHz Powermac G5 with 8GB of RAM and the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro for $8000, would this guarantee they could run any windows app as fast as the average desktop Windows PC?

Or are you still going to say, "nope, that won't do it". That's two 64 bit processors, 8 gigs of ram, and one of the fastest?? GPU's on the market. I would think this could run DOOM 3 like it was running on a 3.4 Ghz Windows based PC with 2 gigs of ram and whatever else u need to run it flawlessly in its windows environment.

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I know this would cost a fortune and no average joe would ever buy this much memory at once, but if one were to purchase a Dual 2.0GHz Powermac G5 with 8GB of RAM and the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro for $8000, would this guarantee they could run any windows app as fast as the average desktop Windows PC?

Or are you still going to say, "nope, that won't do it". That's two 64 bit processors, 8 gigs of ram, and one of the fastest?? GPU's on the market. I would think this could run DOOM 3 like it was running on a 3.4 Ghz Windows based PC with 2 gigs of ram and whatever else u need to run it flawlessly in its windows environment.

i don't think you get the point. this is emulation here. EVERYTHING is going through the software and getting converted to something the ppc architecture can understand.

you wouldn't be able to run doom3 through vpc at all regardless of what your mac is running. your graphics card hardware isn't being used at all when displaying the windows environment. a software renderer is rendering all of the visuals and then using your normal video to display the prerendered images. you can't run anything 3d in vpc as far as i know.

taking the processor instructions, converting them to the ppc instruction set and then sending them out to the processor will never be fast.

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