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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%)
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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:
 Sucks July 9, 2005
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
It does what it says, but it is so so slow even using windows 98 and I have a newer iMac G5 1.8 GHz with 768MB of Ram.
 Just awful. July 4, 2005
16 out of 21 found this review helpful
Anyone who says Virtual PC for mac is a good bit of software MUST be a plant. My experience has been a total time-wasting excercise. My problems are the same as many others I've read. First, the packaging is misleading. I picked (correction...was handed!) the "stand-alone" version, only to find it required a separate copy of windows. Returned it. Got the bundled version. Installed it. Kept getting a "reboot" error message everytime I tried to start it up. Re-installed it. Got a creative-brand webcam and installed it (this was the reason for my purchase, so I could access an online language course site with PC only software). Turns out, the camera (which is supposed to run on both PC and MAC will NOT run on virtual PC). I was in disbelief. There's a website that lists supported hardware for Virtual PC. The number of unsupported cameras, printers, etc. is nothing short of astounding. Does anything run on this program? Now I'm out $200 and stuck with software that can't be returned cause the package is opened. BEWARE! BUY AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Slowwwwwww........ June 1, 2005
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
I purchased MS Virtual PC 7.0 w/Windows XP about six months ago for use on my 1.33 Ghz G4 iBook.
Setup was relatively easy and took about an hour and a half to complete. Unfortunately, it was all down hill from there.
My main reason for buying Virtual PC was to run MS Money 2005 Deluxe on my Mac (Quicken for Mac is terrible, but that's another story). It took about 5 minutes to open my Money file. This was followed by an endless series of painfully long wait times between key strokes. Eventually it locked up completely. After about six more attempts I gave up.
I tried playing several games like Rise of Nations and Age of Empires but they were just as tedious and often locked up during the initial loading. I strongly recommend against attempting to play and games on Virtual PC!
One main problem with this program is that Virtual PC does not allow your computer to use its onboard video card. Instead it attempts to emulate an old 16MB S3 Trio video card with software only.
Additionally, the maximum amount of System RAM Virtual PC will allow you to allocate is limited to 512 MB despite the fact that I have 1.25 GB of RAM available.
Hopefully the next version removes the RAM limit and allows your system to use its video card instead of the painfully slow emulator. This program promises so much, but disappoints at nearly every junction. It's just far too tedious for everyday use in it's current form.
you have GOT to be kidding me May 1, 2005
13 out of 20 found this review helpful
I don't know what these people are doing who are able to get this absolute piece of junk to work!! I have never seen such a waste of money. Two hours of fiddling with this amaturish program and I STILL cannot get it to install a program. Jeez!! How in the world can a company continue to sell a product that barely works for half of the people who buy it?!?!?! I thought, oh, I have a brand new powerbook, I am computer literate, I can make it work even if these other fools cannot. What a mistake....
I should have known when the easy install booklet was 63 pages long that there would be a problem. I am going to uninstall it, reinstall it, see if I can get it to work. But, you know, that is exactley the thing that I have time to do - mess around with an incompetant program that keeps crashing.
At $200 for Virtual PC plus an OS, maybe we should all just buy a $500 computer if we really need this stuff to work.
BEWARE: "Stand Alone" doesn't mean what you think it does! April 24, 2005
20 out of 38 found this review helpful
Just got this and unhappily discovered that it requires you to ALREADY own Microsoft Windows!
Well, if I already owned that, I'd have a machine to run it on. And I'd be living in the PC world rather than the Mac universe! And if I owned Windows already, I'd hardly want to buy a second copy to run on my Mac which would be, I assume, legally required.
So, it's now an inert piece of code taking up valuable hard drive space on our iBook.
Even the product packaging is mis-leading. It is titled STANDALONE and says "Run Microsoft Windows-based applications on your Mac" reinforcing the idea that this is all it takes. UNTRUE!
Note something else... this has to be the worst overkill packaging of any software product I've ever purchased. It comes in a large odd-shaped plastic container--over 9 inches tall and 2" deep. One then pops the top of that to reveal one of those awful hard plastic forms inside. YES, ANOTHER land-fill clogging plastic mess. It's about 4x the size of the normal CD jacket that's inside that. I'll bet that Microsoft thought they were being cool or Apple-like in this packaging, but it shows that they just don't get it--they lack a basic aesthetic. This is a waste and an ecological nightmare to boot. When will the industry and Microsoft routinely package everything in recyclable, gentle on the environment materials?
We should adopt European-style laws that require companies to take back all such packaging... that would rapidly change their behavior.
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