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That isn't that bad for an alpha release. View image here: -įigure this-right now it could probably bench Photoshop around a P-100. No-it would run 1/40 as fast as it would run if APple had a P4-3.4GHz chip-since they don't-it wouldn't be that bad. Would seem to put a damper on a good number of things I would think. In fact, it would be just dandy for most things according to the macfans-even editing movies. Now the same might (MIGHT) be true of this in a year or two when it gets finished/optimized-that it could run OSX similar to a G4-1GHz (of course it would also have benefit of having dual core 5GHz chips!)-but it OSX would certainly be usable for basic things at that point. Tell me-given that G4-1GHz and comparing to the forthcoming dual G5-3.0-might you theorize that VPC would emulate XP at say ~PIII-1GHz levels? This makes XP usable for general purpose stuff and simple demands. Sort of like the Apollo space program had some potential. If it's truly far too slow then so be it, but the pemulator certainly does have some potential. It'd be good if someone can try it out (I don't have a copy of MacOS X).
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I'm fairly certain this - along with my everyday Mac usage - qualifies me to certify it as unusable.
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I got as far as the part of the website where the people who wrote the software tell me the best I can expect is to have it run forty times slower than my Mac. So you've tried it and found it unusable? I'm just trying to point out that your use of the word "run" in describing PearPC has high comic value. It might, one day, if the developers can find a 1000% or better performance improvement. "I run a Mac because it's the only thing that can run MacOS X" is no longer a valid course of reasoning. Then perhaps you should stop using the initial release of the program as the sole indicator of how good it is. I think with dual CPUs this would change significantly - VPC is (quite unsurprisingly) hungry for CPU.
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Speaking on purely subjective terms, I'd say Virtual PC feels like it's running WinXP on a Pentium 200 (on my 1 GHz Powerbook).
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Now how fast does a Mac emulate Windows given the reverse of what I just said applies to it?Ī damn sight faster than 1/40th the speed. It's "reasonable" only as a novelty item. Now when I buy a PC that runs twice the speed of a Mac at one third the price I also have a reasonable option of running MacOS X if I want. What's the fucking point? If not just to say you did it? It's certainly not usable by any stretch of the imagination.īy the way, use of the word "runs" to describe the operation of PearPC is sheer comic genius. It's like driving your car down the highway at 2 mph. It's like going to the movies and getting LESS than 1 fps on the screen.
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I don't think you fully appreciate what 1/40th entails precisely. The point is that "I run a Mac because it's the only thing that can run MacOS X" is no longer a valid course of reasoning. It's also even more obvious given that I talked about cost. I didn't say "MacOS X will run far faster", I said the hardware it is running on is far faster, which it is. MacOS X can now be run on far faster and cheaper PC hardware I'm going to assume your reading was just poor and that you're not trolling and leave this thread openĪctually you should assume that your reading was poor. Now how fast does a Mac emulate Windows given the reverse of what I just said applies to it? native apps competing against each other, a direct result of the hardware they run on). I don't mean emulation speed, I mean in general terms (i.e. I'm not sure what PC you have that is going to run OS X faster than a Mac. That's not the point though - the point is that "I run a Mac because it's the only thing that can run MacOS X" is no longer a valid course of reasoning. Weak contention - PearPC runs PPC applications at about 1/40th the speed on equivalent hardware