Re: Mac Mini Defectors

["David Buckley" <db@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Gerard McGovern" <stuff@i...>
wrote:
> > For those of you who use these things and are missing
> > critical WIndows applications, you can have your cake and eat it.
> >
> > Three words - Microsoft Virtual PC.
>
> Whilst I love the Mac to bits, Virtual PC is nowhere near
> the experience of a regular PC.

Could you explain why?  (not why you said it - why VPC is "nowhere
near the experience of a regular PC")

I use VPC on Windows literally all the time, and it nothing less than
rocks.  I could accept an argument that says that a Mac is
fundamatally naff and thus the VPC Windows experience is compromised.
The crew at Connectix (RIP) who wrote this stuff knew a thing or
three about computers.  The new MS version hasn't broken much of the
old stuff (and certainly nothing I needed) and MS have sorted out the
rough network implementation of the pre-MS version.

As further evidence to support my cause, PCStage, a stage lighting,
multimedia and show control application, which uses an external USB
connected interface to produce DMX512, apparently works on a Mac under
VPC.  This thing is chocked full of timers and stuff to make things
happen, and which I would regard as a good test of can a VPC cut it
with a difficult application.