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Carmela Rivers

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(Msg. 31) Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:25 pm
Post subject: RE: Despite promises, VPC 7 is impossibly slow... [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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> I'm (barely) running VPC 7.01 on a new PowerBook 1.5 GHZ 17" with 1GB
> of RAM and 512 MB dedicated to VPC, which has XP Home installed. Even
> with minimum graphics effects enabled and other efforts to optimize its
> performance, Windows is just barely usable. I use it to test my web
> site designs online with Explorer and Netscape. Once the program
> finally launches (an excruciatingly slow process, even with no other
> apps running) minutes tick by waiting for browsers to launch and then
> more time for sites to actually load. I suspect the browser use is not
> especially taxing on the OS, so I truly pity users who are hoping for
> something remotely resembling performance with more demanding apps. I'd
> previously run VPC 6.1 on a 1 GHZ PowerBook and I'd swear it was faster
> than this.
>
> I'm open to suggestions for performance improvements, but even a search
> of these forums indicates I'm far from alone and Microsoft's support
> for this product appears nominal at best. So, before you purchase or
> upgrade, be sure your expectations are set very low.

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