On May 23, 2004, at 10:23 AM, Aaron Ballman wrote:
It's been my experience that VPC is so slow as to be almost unusable
for
real testing. VMware on the PC performs very well, but obviously it
cannot
emulate the Mac. But it still has the advantage that you can install
multiple OSes on the same box in a sandbox environment. I'd recommend
VMWare instead of VPC if you're going to be running on a native box.
And
I'd highly recommend the native box over VPC if you can afford it
(let's
face it, prices on boxes have come down so much that they're rather
inexpensive for a decent box).
Yeah, $499 for a low end Dell isn't too bad, especially when it comes
with everything. My one concern is the how well those machines would
work for testing games. RB3d is "slow" enough on my G5, so if I snatch
a PC with something like integrated graphics and a slow speed Celeron,
I wonder how useful it is for that. My main problem is where to put
one. I don't have anywhere to put another tower and monitor and the
like. I went looking at PC laptops a few weeks ago, and you'd be amazed
how poor in features/quality vs price they are. Those iBooks are DARN
good deals considering.
Seth Willits
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