Ouch Vista on my iBook under Virtual PC

[slooksterPSV]

Yeah, so I try everything. I used the discs that we have of Vista and I decided to try and install it on my iBook. It's painfully slow; it registers at 295MHz, to install it took about 2 and a half hours. Right now I'm installing VPC tools to see if that speeds anything up.

Yes I believe that the PPC hardware is still good hardware, that it can run the latest and greatest stuff... well Vista may not be in the greatest category, but it looks nice... just an aquafied XP really lol. Anyways, has anyone else tried this?

Specs:
iBook G4 1.33GHz
1GB RAM
Window Vista Premium on VPC

 

[rogersmj]

You are bloody insane. There's no way you can actually use that.

 

[Lord Blackadder]

Yeah, you're crazy.

You have to be either unencumbered by a need to actually get things done or live a very slow-paced life to run Vista on an iBook.

It reminds me of the time I installed Debian Linux on a Mac IIci...I even compiled the kernel.

 

[Steven1621]

I'd like to see a screenshot.

 

[jericho53]

Omg

 

[slooksterPSV]

Here's a screenshot

 

[Chundles]

295MHz... Yikes.

And I thought XP felt slow on a G4.

 

[3nm]

you feeling teh wow??

 

[Shadow]

But this begs the question why would you want to?

 

[PlaceofDis]

But this begs the question why would you want to?

because you can. duh. we're nerds afterall

 

[netdog]

Here's a screenshot

Slook isn't insane. He's a pioneer in spirit.

That screenshot makes me smile.

 

[Sun Baked]

But this begs the question why would you want to?

because you can. duh. we're nerds afterall

There are nerds, and then there are guys who like spending the night in a leather bustier and pink tutu while getting whipped by someone in a poodle costume.

 

[rogersmj]

There are nerds, and then there are guys who like spending the night in a leather bustier and pink tutu while getting whipped by someone in a poodle costume.

I just want to make sure I have this straight...Vista is the one in the pink poodle costume?

 

[thejadedmonkey]

And I thought I was crazy for trying to run Vista under Parallels with just a gig of ram

 

[princealfie]

This is awesome. Why didn't you try using Q or Qemu? That would be much faster without the BS.

 

[Mr Skills]

How come you've got the fancy graphics? Doesn't Vista detect that the [virtual] hardware isn't up to spec?

 

[sushi]

You are bloody insane. There's no way you can actually use that.

But this begs the question why would you want to?

because you can. duh. we're nerds afterall

I think these three comment sum up my thoughts!

 

[slooksterPSV]

This is awesome. Why didn't you try using Q or Qemu? That would be much faster without the BS.

Q and Qemu are much slower, sorry to say, I haven't tried Vista on it, but I installed XP on Q and yeah, Q ran a lot slower than if it were on VPC. But I'll import Vista on Q and see if it runs faster, I doubt it, but I'll try.

 

[OldSkoolNJ]

There are nerds, and then there are guys who like spending the night in a leather bustier and pink tutu while getting whipped by someone in a poodle costume.

HEY! I thought I told you that in confidence .... I just want to clarify that it was a one time thing!

Kevin

 

[princealfie]

HEY! I thought I told you that in confidence .... I just want to clarify that it was a one time thing!

Kevin

Okay,... so is this part of the dog show or donkey show from Clerks II?

 

[volvoben]

How come you've got the fancy graphics? Doesn't Vista detect that the [virtual] hardware isn't up to spec?

Those aren't vista's "aero" graphics, they're just basic graphics. aero has the lame transparency thing. i don't run vista much, if ever, but the regular non-aero graphics look better to me.

If i had a ppc mac, vpc and some free time I'd probably try it too. I do have a penchant for poodle-whipping though...

 

[gkarris]

Darn, and I was going to do this on my 600 MHz G3 iBook...

 

[SteveG4Cube]

Sheesh, I curse enough at my 800mhz eMac when I'm running 98 on VPC. Thankfully, that's a rare occurance.

 

[TDM21]

I've installed Vista a couple of times under VPC on my G4 PowerMac. It did install, but was too slow to be anything usable. I even went into the display and performance settings and turned all the eye candy off; still slow. After about an hour of trying to do the most basic task I gave up. I couldn't get the virtual NIC to work with any driver I tried. Setting VPC to virtual switch didn't work either. I wish I could have dedicated more than 512MB ram to Vista. Its slow enough on a real system running 512MB. I also tried the emulator Q, but it was probably twice as slow as VPC. I think I will stick with 2000 for all of my required Windows needs.

 

[ghall]

For some reason the only word that comes to mind is: kaboom!