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| Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac 7.0 [OLD VERSION] | ![Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac 7.0 [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21EAZJ72S8L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $129.99
Buy New: $89.00
You Save: $40.99 (32%)
New (1) Used (1) from $89.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 3650
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Macintosh
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7.5 x 2.4
MPN: 982683
Model: S65-00387
UPC: 805529760899
EAN: 0805529760899
ASIN: B0002NT16E
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New Software
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| Customer Reviews:
 This emulator works October 24, 2005
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I've been using Virtual PC for about six months now and I am satisfied. I use Virtual PC to run Microsft Money and QuickBooks on a G5 with 1GB of RAM, of which 700MB is allocated to Virtual PC.
Using an emulator can be slow. But I've found that if you use one program at a time, it responds well. In other words, if you stay in Quickbooks and don't swap over to AppleMail, Safari, etc, the program running in the emulator works reasonably well.
Surprisingly, I haven't run across any Windows issues. Installation of Virtual PC and Windows XP, Money and Quickbooks all occurred without any concerns. I have not experienced any BSDs (Blue Screens of Death) or any other hang ups.
When running Virtual PC, the G5 will not go into sleep mode. So, if you leave your G5 running all day and night like I do, the energy savings mode will not kick in.
If you need to run more complex programs in Virtual PC, I suggest that you max out the RAM at 2GB and devote as much as possible to the Virtual PC.
One minor annoyance is that when swapping between programs, sometimes it take Virtual PC a long time to respond. So say you are working in Safari and you then move into Virtual PC. It can sometimes take 15-20 secs before Virtual PC responds.
UPDATE One annoying issue that presents itself too often is this: buttons go black. By buttons, I mean things that you click to get the program to respond. Once the buttons go black, they still operate (i.e. click on one to, say, maximize a window, and it does. The only way to get this to stop happening, is to restart Windows. Usually, this only happens after having Virtual PC running for a while. But, it is incredibly annoying because restarting Windows and Quickbooks probably takes a full ten minutes.
 Misleading Advertisement October 23, 2005
14 out of 37 found this review helpful
The product does not include the Windows operating system needed to make the program work, and this was not made clear in the advertisement. There is no benefit to buying this; I now need to track down Windows operating system for the Mac.
Virtual PC: a big waste of money October 13, 2005
8 out of 22 found this review helpful
Virtual PC is a big waste of money. For not much more money you can buy an inexpensive PC to run your windows based programs. Virtual PC is slow and is filled with glitches and problems but don't try to get any customer support because it is $35 to get help.
 it works great September 30, 2005
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
I am able to run any pc program on my mac. I did have to run down a liscenced version of Windows to be able to run this version.
It works, after a while August 2, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
It takes forever to get this to work. I couldn't get XP Pro to run at all, but regular XP worked eventually. After that, there's the song and dance about registering the Windows software with Microsoft, which took about 5 tries, but eventually did work. (I was using the software that came with my Dell; I have no explanation for why I had to keep entering the same data over and over before finally I got a product code that Microsoft's robot would accept.) After that, I run only the simplest of programs-some high school educational stuff-but it works fine (if you don't mind wading through a couple of error messages on startup that say everything isn't fine but don't worry about it). Bottom line: it's probably better to buy a cheap PC if you really need a PC, but if your need is occasional, and you love installing software, this is fine. NOTE: I have Tiger but haven't upgraded Virtual PC (there's an online upgrade at microsoft) since what I have runs fine.
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