Customer Reviews
Worthless Software 
2006-06-30
Don't waste your money. It does not work with the new Imac's with
Intel Dual Processors, and once you open the package you are stock with it.
Wait for the new operating system "Leopard". That has "Boot Camp" as part
of the operating system
Adequate but slow 
2006-02-17
If you're patient you'll be satisfied with the performance. If you're not you'll hate it. You'll need at least a 100 gig hard drive because Virtual PC is a space hog!
The only thing that has crashed Mac OSX 2005-11-26
This is the worst piece of software I have ever used. Three separate installations have brought my Mac (with 10.43) to a complete halt. Each time the Virtual PC Windows installation was too scrogged to work after a hard re-boot. The last time it also managed to scrogg my OS-X Mail configuration (and who knows what else). I should have known better than to install Microsoft software on a functioning computer. For not much more money you can by an old, used Windows PC - that way when it crashes, at least it won't mess up your Mac.
Virtual PC for MAC OSX 
2005-10-21
This is an amazing program. It worked even better then I had hoped. I love Amazon.com because my items always arrive on time and are always what I thought they were.
Waste of money 2005-10-08
This software arrives with little content....the implication in the descripton (at least to me) was that it included most, if not all, of Microsoft's XP. Not true at all....typical Microsoft ripoff. Plus won't accept uploads from Mac disk drive. All in all, a total waste of time and money.
not compatible 2007-06-27
This will not work with the latest version of OSX - won't even load. Had to return it. Amazon was great and refunded my money promptly
Slow but works 2007-05-29
Response is very, very slow, especially with Internet Explorer, but it eventually does what it is supposed to do. I do have a PC CD-ROM that it does not work with but other than that it serves its purpose.
Virtually-Useless. I didn't believe what people were saying; now I do. 2007-04-07
I really didn't believe everyone when they said it was so slow. I thought maybe they were just too demanding. I thought, I have a very fast G4 (1.42GHz) with 1.5GB of ram, so I'm sure my system will handle it allright. Wrong. It is so slow that I am not sure I will be able to use it for any of the things I wanted to use it for. Seriously, trust me on this: it is super, super slow. I used to have a 300MHz Dell Pentium 2 with 256MB of ram that blew the doors off this thing in speed. When you go to system in control panel to see about the computer, it listed my 1.42Ghz G4 as a 295MHz 686 processor. A 686 if memory serves is a pentium 2, since I believe 586 was the Pentium 1. Also, they only let me allocate 512MB of my 1.5GB of ram to Virtual PC. Even though it says I have an effective P2 processor with 512MB of ram, I still think it is much slower than that in real life terms. Again, just a few years ago I had a 300MHz Dell with 256MB of ram which believe it or not served me well for a long while and was plenty fast with high speed internet. This Virtual PC runs as slow or slower than the first Pentium computer I ever bought way back in 1994. Again, it is "virtually-useless" it is so slow. Don't buy it. get a used Dell laptop or desktop on ebay for the same price as this software if you must have Windows, or just get one of the new Intel macs that will run Windows natively. Seriously, please listen to me on this. I wish I had listened to others more seriously before I wasted my time and money on this.
Jumping through hoops 
2007-03-11
Honestly, wouldn't it just be nice to be able to use your MAC with all the software that's out there these days. Imagine if we couldn't call a friend because they were on Cingular while you were on Verizon. It is just ridiculous to me that instead of coding all the new versions of software as they are released to be supported on multiple platforms both Windows based & OS X, they come up with this "workaround".
I bought it for two reasons only: so that I could access a stupid website I needed for work that didn't have all of its capabilities supported on OS X- it needed IE as its web browser; to install a software that I needed for work that is specific to the mortgage industry.
In any event, does the workaround work... for the most part yes. Is it slow as hell- you betcha!
In a pinch (but only in a pinch) 2007-03-08
I am a die hard mac user, having used macs for 22 years. I love them and have avoided windows at any cost. I was forced to use Windows because I needed to use a program (Access) that only runs on Windows. The pc that was loaned to me quit.
My solution was to buy and load Virtual PC for Mac. I have a 3 year old powerbook G4. It has plenty of memory and, according to the system requirements, exceeds the specifications. I loaded the program on my mac. The mac portion of the installation was very easy. Virtual PC creates a "virtual computer" on your hard drive (I don't really understand all of this, but it somehow partitions off a certain amount of space on your hard drive).
After installing Virtual PC, I loaded Windows XP Home. This took a very long time. Overall it took time over 2 days to install the program and get it running. I now have Access running as well. The "Virtual PC" works and is functional. It is not speedy when it launches or in opening or closing programs, but it is functional and that is what I needed. It is worth the $[...] I spent since I did not have to go out and repair the pc that died (not worth repairing) and I did not have to buy another pc.
By using this program, I am much more fully aware of why I love my mac and really despise Windows. Anyone familiar with windows will tell you how unintuitive and ugly the interface is. It is a very frustrating experience for a mac user, but as I said it is functional. If you absolutely have to run a Windows program, then this might be a good solution for you. The only other one that I can see in the future is to buy a dual-processor mac and then load Windows natively on it. It would undoubtly be much more speedy, but I doubt that it would be any less frustrating and certainly would never "win" me over. I'm a Mac!
