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<blockquote data-quote="lil" data-source="post: 170910"><p>Not much you can do, you wouldn't be able to allocate 8GB or even over 4GB to the PC emulated as it emulates a 32bit x86 processor, so 4GB RAM limit is imposed.</p><p></p><p>As for the processor speed; well that is determined by the speed of the G5 processor, not necessarily Virtual PC, as there is a huge amount of translation occuring; which causes the slow down.</p><p></p><p>The best thing I know of to speed up VPC is to disable networking support when not necessary, even to stick to Windows 98 if you can, or Windows 2000; XP was too sluggish to be usable on my PowerBook G4 but Windows 98 and 2000 were fine.</p><p></p><p>Vicky</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lil, post: 170910"] Not much you can do, you wouldn't be able to allocate 8GB or even over 4GB to the PC emulated as it emulates a 32bit x86 processor, so 4GB RAM limit is imposed. As for the processor speed; well that is determined by the speed of the G5 processor, not necessarily Virtual PC, as there is a huge amount of translation occuring; which causes the slow down. The best thing I know of to speed up VPC is to disable networking support when not necessary, even to stick to Windows 98 if you can, or Windows 2000; XP was too sluggish to be usable on my PowerBook G4 but Windows 98 and 2000 were fine. Vicky [/QUOTE]
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