Short and sweet: Apple seems to have removed all references to Microsoft’s Virtual PC from its “Switch” webpages in recent days. Previously listed on some Apple pages were references to using Virtual PC to run Windows applications not available for the Macintosh.
The removal of Virtual PC mentions from Apple’s “Switch” webpages seem to coincide with the recent news that Microsoft confirms Virtual PC incompatible with Apple’s G5.
Apple’s “Switch” section is here.
(UPDATE 12:05pm ET: Apple does indeed have one reference left, on the Switch site. It is on this page. Thanks, Swedentom.)
VPC is THE reason I am considering switching. I work in an industry that 99% of the software I use to interact with equipment is PC only. I work completely from a laptop and purchasing a 2nd laptop to perform a few functions in the PC world is out of the question. No VPC; no switch. It’s that simple for me.
P.S. Save your comments about all the other great things about a Mac. I know all that. But if I can’t do my job, as efficiently and effectively as I need to, I don’t make the switch.
I use VPC to run various browsers (yes IE) and versions to check my web pages. Easy and very convienient on the same worksation (and Pbook). Some times to check out an apllication that’s not or not yet available to Mac.
I will really mis VPC.
I like Mac. I don’t like Win. But it would be foolish to ignore 95% of the ‘others’.
Buying a cheap box doesn’t seems a very attractive option when one could have it all in one machine… Why lug two laptops around?
I hope VPC will upgrade ASAP!
It was great for Aplle when Connectix made the Virtual Game Station – PlayStation Emulator… Maybe Microfoft wanna re-releace that one for Mac OS X just to bug Sony
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What hasn’t been mentioned is that Apple started, then shelved, an emulation product. One of the engineers working on it went to Connectix and did Virtual PC.
What also hasn’t been mentioned is that Apple had the opportunity to buy Virtual PC for Mac when Connectix sold VPC for Windows to M$. Apple didn’t want it.
The final thing to remember is that the G5 doesn’t support the little-endian mode that VPC 6.1 needed to run quickly.
In short, Apple doesn’t want to own VPC, and they don’t care if their processors don’t support VPC. It seems that Apple thinks VPC gives Windows developers an excuse *not* to make a Mac version of something, and they don’t want to make themselves just another Windoze box.
AVDad: If you are considering the purchase of an Apple laptop, and VPC was THE reason you decided to switch to the Mac, then this announcement about VPC has nothing to do with you.
All Apple laptops will be using G3 and G4 processors for the forseeable future. You will not see a G5 Apple laptop anytime soon. The issue with VPC is with the PowerPC G5 processor unable to run in ‘little endian mode’. PowerPC processors are RISC, which is ‘big endian mode’ – the older 68k processors and all intel/amd x86 processors are CISC or ‘little endian mode’ – Apparently the G5 doesn’t support the ability to emulate little endian.
-Zack
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