Windows Vista

[Rambles]

[quote="Jinji":621c3b3a17]
Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, I think whatever the name, it'll never beat Mac Os x! Although, I personally think Vista sounds like a good name. It sounds like "clear" to me. ANd from what I've heard Windows Vista will look clear.
[/quote:621c3b3a17]

Every version of Windows since 95 and before has beaten the Mac OS.

[Elv13]

if you look at speed, any windoze was better, if you look at GUI osx have the best

[Guest]

Well, Windows Longhorn/Vista 5048 and 5219 are seriously slow on Virtual PC in my experience but Mac OS X86 is pretty fast on VMware (apart from when runnigng PowerPC apps), although I suppose it's not really fair to compare beta Windows with (effectively) final Mac OS.

[Dr Frankenstein]

Macintoshes were always 1 or 2 years ahead PCs.

[Dr Frankenstein]

Pentium III, 800MHz, 256Mb RAM, 2 CD drives (1 burner), they recently replaced the hard drive by 2 x 80Gb drives

[SAK `]

[quote="???":d1dec9817c]
Well, Windows Longhorn/Vista 5048 and 5219 are seriously slow on Virtual PC in my experience
[/quote:d1dec9817c]

[size=11:d1dec9817c]is it the startup of the OS, or is it the overall performance? if you're just running the emulator that runs Vista, of course there will be slow performance at times.[/size:d1dec9817c]

[Guest]

Both, really - takes ages to start up, then anything like opening a window or a program takes a long time, with all the bits of the window appearing gradually, that sort of thing. Longhorn seems to get slower with each version - 3718 is pretty similar to XP so that isn't bad at all speed-wise, but by the time you get to 5219 it's really slow.

Normal XP is pretty much as fast as it is when running natively on Virtual PC though, so it might be because Vista is beta that it's slow (for instance Windows 95 is lightning fast to use on VPC but Chicago can be a little slow) or maybe the next version of VPC will be optimised in some way to run Vista at usable speeds.

[Elv13]

its faster than Xp when you install it for real

[Guest]

Seriously??! Obviously it's faster than on Virtual PC, but faster than XP?! Anyone else found this to be the case?

Is it (Vista 5219) any better in VMware than Virtual PC? - I might try it on there at some point if I have time.