Virtual PC?

[WaHoo]

Anybody been using this? What are the limitations?

[ignus]

i hear its a resource hog

[Vygramul]

It is. It works great for the following tests:

Space Empires IV: No loss of speed.
Civ3: Painfully slow. Tortuously so.

Can't run OpenGL apps in Virtual PC.

[WaHoo]

So it's like vmware on Linux?

[Chairman_Kaga]

So it's like vmware on Linux?
Yes, very similar.

[WaHoo]

Now that's something that makes Macs very very interesting all of a sudden... Native Mac apps for the heavy duty multimedia stuff, and a Windows image for everything else - other than games. Although I'd still be concerned about stuff like DVDShrink

[WaHoo]

Now that's something that makes Macs very very interesting all of a sudden... Native Mac apps for the heavy duty multimedia stuff, and a Windows image for everything else - other than games. Although I'd still be concerned about stuff like DVDShrink

Forget anything processor/video-intensive.

Besides, all that DVD stuff exists on the Mac side....

Kinda what I was talking about... Photoshop, Premiere (or even Apple's Final Cut for that matter) and stuff like that is all Apple.

[WaHoo]

Kinda what I was talking about... Photoshop, Premiere (or even Apple's Final Cut for that matter) and stuff like that is all Apple.

I have no use for a PC at home except for gaming. And gaming is vital....



And there is the problem... A PC is good for both work and gaming. I hate being poor :x

[TedHershey]

If you're gonna be serious about video anymore, you'll have to get a decent Mac now that Final Cut has taken 60 some percent of the low end commercial market. A couple of my buddies from film school just switched from an aging Avid system to a Final Cut solution (both where mac based) at the post production shop where they work, and we've dropped all instruction on Media 100's and Premiere from our curriculum where I teach. Video production is now where Audio production was in the 90's. Sure you can do it on a PC, but not if you want to use the industry standard application (in the case of audio that was/is proTools). And unlike DigiDesign, Apple is unlikely to port it's own apps over to the PC.

[WaHoo]

It kinda depends on what's going to happen over the next 2 years or so.

As more and more details on the PS3 become available (the latest being the introduction of the cell CPU) the more I'm thinking that maybe the time for the PC as a primary gaming platform is over. If they would only ship them with mouse and keyboard... It's making me sick that I could have bought a console years ago and would still be playing the most recent games without spending hundreds of dollars on upgrades. Unfortunately I'm not a "gamepad person" though, but if console games were more sophisticated I'd be hooked for sure.

I'd be all over Apple I guess if there were clones available again. Having to spend $1500 for an 1.8 GHz G5 that only comes with 256 MB RAM makes me look into PCs even more though. Then again, it would be a different story if I wouldn't have to maintain a reasonably fast PC for my gaming needs.

I kinda made the first step away from Windows a while ago when I decided to finally toss MS Office. Now for eveything other than gaming I could use Mac or Linux. Given the number of commercial applications I'm leaning more towards Apple right now.