William H. Magill on Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:10:19 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Laptop Recommendations



On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 02:26 PM, Paul wrote:

How much does the Virtual PC software cost?

A copy of VPC 6 with XP H or Win 98 is $200 With XP Pro or W2K is $220 With DOS is $110 I think VPC alone is $100.

Virtual PC itself is cheap - Windoz licenses cost money... and VPC really is a Pentium emulator. You can install any version of an x86 OS (including Linux versions) on it that you want. Obviously, it's not supported by the VPC vendor Connectix, but it does work -- I use it with NT (W2K) to support a number of my home automation devices that only have Windoz GUIs.

The expensive versions of VPC are those which include the disk images of one of the Microsoft OS's... and it's the fastest way in the world to install W95/98/NT/2000 etc.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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