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1. BEST MAC OS X 10.3.9 EMULATOR INSTALL
2. BEST MAC OS X 10.3.9 EMULATOR UPGRADE
3. BEST MAC OS X 10.3.9 EMULATOR FULL
4. BEST MAC OS X 10.3.9 EMULATOR PC
5. BEST MAC OS X 10.3.9 EMULATOR FREE

Because I don’t see why someone would pick GuestPC over VirtualPC (at least for Windows OS support) or the free Qemu, the incentive should be an even better price.

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GuestPC costs $70, but it offers a lesser experience than the $130 Virtual PC 7. In conclusion, I have one thing to say to the GuestPC guys: bring down the price.

BEST MAC OS X 10.3.9 EMULATOR UPGRADE

This can be an incentive for an old VirtualPC user to upgrade to GuestPC. And what’s the deal with the “shut down” and “turn off” alert window? What’s the freaking difference on an emulated PC?Īnd a feature request: support VirtualPC’s image files (or include a utility that converts them to the GuestPC format). Recovering from sleep with VirtualPC takes 5-8 seconds (suspension to disk, essentially), while recovering from hibernation with GuestPC can take up to 20-25 seconds. GuestPC can’t save the state of the PC like VirtualPC does, but it can use Hibernation. When I use the “full screen” option, I have to use GuestPC’s OS in XGA, which is a shame as my monitor is capable of a lot more. I own a good 21″ SONY CRT monitor that can go all the way up to 2048×1536 (and 1600×1200 at 85 Hz), but GuestPC can’t take advantage of it. The main problem with the graphics card emulated here is the fact that it only emulates 4 MBs, and so GuestPC does not allow for more than XGA resolutions. Funny thing is, I used to actually have one of these cards in “real” life (not under emulation) and they were not too bad in 2D speed at the time, in fact, its 2D speed was better than the 16 MB S3 Trio that VirtualPC emulates. Graphics performance is pretty bleak too, there are lots of ugly redraws going on, as the graphics card emulated is a Cirrus Logic 5440 with 4 MBs of VRAM. Maybe this is the case, but the reality of the thing is, most Mac users own G4s instead and they are more interested in emulating XP rather than the unstable and old Win98. I hear that GuestPC really shines when emulates Windows98SE instead on a G5 system. I found GuestPC to be 2-3 times slower than VirtualPC 6.1 in normal everyday usage (IE, office, PaintShopPro etc). Loading notepad or IE takes a few seconds, while in VirtualPC 6.1 they are almost instant on the same machine (especially notepad). The kind of performance GuestPC gives me on this dual G4 is pretty much the same performance VirtualPC 5 was giving me on a Cube 450 Mhz 2 years ago. I am not happy with the performance though. If GuestPC has one great feature, that it is: stability. I used Guest PC for over a month and I must say that it’s rock solid. Using Command+ESC you can release the mouse cursor from the emulated window. GuestPC’s interface is really simple, there are a few icons on the bottom of the OS window showing activity on the peripherals and the CPU load.

BEST MAC OS X 10.3.9 EMULATOR INSTALL

There are some add on drivers that GuestPC can install to extend the experience, and so we got these installed too.

BEST MAC OS X 10.3.9 EMULATOR FULL

It took 2 hours to install Windows XP PRO on this machine.Īfter it got installed, it loaded in about 1.5 minutes to a full desktop. Then, you click on the “start OS installation” button and it fires up the emulated PC, reads from your CDROM and installs the OS. When creating a new virtual PC image you can select from 300 MB to 32 GB of space for your guest OS, and memory from 32 MB to 512 MB. GuestPC supports DOS, Win95/98/ME/NT/XP/2k but there is the ability to potentially boot other OSes too (however we didn’t test this). We used a dual PowerMac G4 1.25GHz with 2 GB of RAM and an ATi Radeon 9200 Pro, Mac OS X 10.3.9 as the host OS and Windows XP Pro as the guest OS. We had a quick look at the product and we compared it to VirtualPC 6.1 that we also happened to have in-house. I highly recommend you upgrade.Guest PC is an emulator of the x86 PC for the Mac OS X platform. Look, Apple has a whole support page for Classic under Tiger:Ĭlassic does not work with Intel based Macs, maybe that's what you're confused about? If you have PowerPC (G3, G4 or G5) based Mac that is Tiger compatible, Classic should work just fine. There's no need to install OS9 specific print drivers anymore.Īlso there's a menu item that makes it easy to start/stop Classic and see what state it's in. In fact there were new features added to Classic for Tiger like pass through printing. Whoah, that's not true at all, I've been using Classic with Tiger since it came out, no problem. I am reluctant to go from 10.3.9 to 10.4 because there is no Classic support (I have many small footprint programs that run magically under the classic environment, to replace them with 10.4 savvy versions would be very expensive.