How about running it from an external disk? I don't know if it's possible
with that version of the product, but it could help, as both OS's are
competing for I/O and memory, I would assume. Might be a quick fix to gain
a
bit more speed while you decide if it's worth buying a newer machine. I
can
say that Parallel's on a 2GB MBPro works very well for my limited needs.
Probably the video card could also be affecting memory, but don't remember
what that G4 had for video drivers. Did that one have shared memory
drivers?
On 9/25/07 8:49 AM, in article uKxZ5k4$HHA.5360@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"CyberTaz" <typegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet> wrote:
> Hi Richard -
>
> I'm by no means an expert, but I do use VPC 7. I don't know that there
is
> much you can do other than limiting the number of active processes as
much
> as possible - i.e., don't leave Word running while using Access. My
> understanding is that each VPC is allocated 512 MB RAM, so even
increasing
> that won't help (unless you're using other apps in OS X at the same
time).
>
> But even if you tweak VPC as much as possible your real bottleneck is
the
> 800 MHz processor & the rest of the G4 architecture. I run on a Dual
2GHz G5
> with very clean VPC configs & speed is still an issue for me...
tolerable,
> but not acceptable for business use on a regular basis.
>
> There is a separate newsgroup for VPC, so you might inquire there for
more
> knowledgeable sources:
>
> microsoft.public.mac.virtualpc
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