[DM-MUG] Re: Mac for Point of Sale business use?

[Ray Bowler]

At 12:02 PM -0500 on 6/18/04, Carolyn Moe wrote about [DM-MUG] Re: 
Mac for Point of Sale business use?:
>
>Also, I'd like to hear from someone who uses Virtual PC.  Does it really
>work as well as they say it will?

On the VPC I can help a little. The latest version is 6 and it is 
owned and marketed by MicroSoft. It is on my wife's iBook running OS 
10.2.8. It seems to work with everything which I have used on it(not 
a lot). People that I have seen discuss it seem to find that it works 
well. The biggest problem is that it is slower than an actual PC 
running the same OS and software. In my setup I can use Internet 
Explorer and Outlook Epress if I desire but I have them offline 
because of the virus problem in Windoze. They are also extremely 
slow. The nice thing is that I can share the folders on my Mac with 
the VPC--I save a copy of documents to the Mac folders and do my 
backup of them and generally do not backup my VPC since it is a 
single 4+GB file. I can also move files from the Mac to the VPC disk 
easily. My USB printer also works well(it has to since printing 
certain documents is why I have VPC.

You need a lot of free disk space to set it up and use it. The nice 
thing about that is that once it is allocated you don't have it 
increasing unless you fill the C: drive up and need to enlarge it. A 
fast computer is very helpful. The more memory the better.

Hope this helps.
-- 
Ray

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