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Approaching Reality (1/2/98)
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Connectix's VirtualPC is already a miracle, as we've previously noted-- It lets a Powermac G3 266 run Windows NT at speeds about equivalent of a Pentium 133-166. That's plenty fast for most occasional use (though games-playing is another matter). And yet, things are about to get even better, because Connectix has just announced VirtualPC 2.0, which they claim is 25-40% faster than the current 1.0 release.

So let's see... That means that with VirtualPC 2.0, a Powermac G3 266 would likely run Windows about as fast as a Pentium 166-233. And if you ran it on a soon-to-be-announced Powermac G3 275, you could expect 172-240 MHz Pentium speeds. We can't wait to hear the actual benchmarks.

We're inching ever closer to the day when the fastest Windows machine just may be a Mac running VirtualPC. Well, okay, not really-- but this is great news for Mac folks who are being forced to run Windows software-- with a fast Powermac and VirtualPC, everyone's happy. Are you listening, Al Gore?

 
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The above scene was taken from the 1/2/98 episode:

January 2, 1998: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 321: Here Comes the Climb (1/2/98)   Jump back-- AAPL's on the rise. Apple stock gained 3 and an eighth today, to close at 16 and a quarter. That's a one-day rise of about 24%. Not bad. Why the spike? Newsbytes thinks it's due to two factors...

  • 322: Apple Club Clubbed (1/2/98)   In what could only be described as a long-overdue mercy killing, Macintouch reports that the Apple Club has finally been shut down, just less than a year after its problematic introduction. We were unable to connect to the Apple Club site to confirm this, but that fact in itself should tell you something... or, at least, it would, if not for the fact that people have always had trouble connecting to that site...

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