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To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (16898)	8/19/1998 1:01:00 PM
From: ScamSeeker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

I have both VPC and an Orange Micro Pentium 120Mhz board. I have the Orange Micro board in an 8500. I would say that it runs about as fast as my G3-300 with VPC. The 8500 does not have enough horsepower to run VPC according to my requirements. The Orange Micro card was also pretty hard to setup. Much more expensive $450 v $150. And I have corrupted the disk on several occasions. It is also not completely asynchronous to the Mac OS. If you are doing disk related operations on your Mac, it will completely block out any disk operations the Orange card may be doing. VPC on the other hand comes completely preconfigured with a 100 or 200 MB disk image ready to go with Win 95. It seems to be completely asynchronous as it is just another Mac task running. You can quit VPC in the middle of a session and it will take a snap shot of the session. Upon restart, you begin where you left off. So I think the VPC solution is best if you have a Mac with the necessary processor, or Orange if you have one of the older PCI macs. Richard

To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (16898)	8/19/1998 9:27:00 PM
From: soup	Respond to of 213182

>I want to see if I can compare to using an Orange Micro board, which is faster.< I think you can get 200mhz Pentium Cards. Check their Web site. BTW, they're not that straightforward to install. We installed one for a customer at my old store. Try Comp-U-D if they still have some of the Apple 166mhz Boards. I'd also check with the software vendor to see how much hardware they suggest to best run their software. Ie; how much real world difference does a faster processor make.