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mhuk01
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 Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:50 am Post subject: virtual pc & visual basic help |
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hi there,
i'm looking at buying virtual pc. this is because as far as i know visual basic will not run on a mac. Is this true?
Also, how smoothly does virtual pc 7 run on a mac mini?
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Martin |
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aristobrat
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:35 am Post subject: |
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I didn't have a good experience w/ Virtual PC on my mini system (1.42 ghz, 1gb of RAM, and VPC running on an external firewire drive).
I used Windows 2000 as the "host OS" in VPC as I had read numerous posts about how XP was a lot slower.
Everything ran well inside the VPC, it just was sooooooooooo slow that I found it easier to keep one of my Windows computers turned on all of the time and use "Desktop Sharing" to remote control it whenever I need to do a Windows task I can do on my mac mini (like update my GPSr, or VPN into work).
I'm not the worlds most patient person, so VPC might work out well for you. |
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mhuk01
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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| aristobrat wrote: | I didn't have a good experience w/ Virtual PC on my mini system (1.42 ghz, 1gb of RAM, and VPC running on an external firewire drive).
I used Windows 2000 as the "host OS" in VPC as I had read numerous posts about how XP was a lot slower.
Everything ran well inside the VPC, it just was sooooooooooo slow that I found it easier to keep one of my Windows computers turned on all of the time and use "Desktop Sharing" to remote control it whenever I need to do a Windows task I can do on my mac mini (like update my GPSr, or VPN into work).
I'm not the worlds most patient person, so VPC might work out well for you. |
Shouldn't matter too much about the slowness, i'm currently on a pentium2 233mhz dell with 64mb ram!  What about visual basic though, does it requre virtual pc for it to run on a mac?
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Martin |
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Susurrus
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:29 am Post subject: |
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If you're willing to try out a non-Microsoft basic editor, there is REALbasic. It seems to be what Mac users use, though I didn't check if Microsoft makes their software available for OS X.
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wala
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I know that M$ Word for Mac has a VB macro editor....
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