Virtual pc on mac: will it play pc games with virtual pc

i was just wondering if i got virtual pc, if that would allow me to take advantage of playing pc games this way. Just wondering thanks for anyone who answers this.

Well first you should check with some folks if the darn thing is still running somewhat decently. Apple has made some OS updates and announcements that will pretty much render the future of VPC obsolete, or at the time being halt all needs for futher updates. Microsoft is strugging with Vista as it is, so I don't even know if MS made a update to VPC to run on dual core processors, I don't beleive they have.
Apple's "Boot Camp" and then there is Parallels Workstation to run other OS's at the same time as Mac OS X on Mac's with Intel processors. Without the need for VPC.
Far as I know, VPC (on PPC G5 machines) uses only one processor even if there are more. So whatever you can run will have to run well with VPC running on the same processor. Second, video card performance is not going to be great, so perhaps some simple 2D games, but nothing 3D dependent like Halo2 or Half Life.
If you want to run 3D PC games on a Mac you can get by with a MacBook Pro by booting into Windows under "Boot Camp" but of course for real performance you'll have to wait for the Mac Pro (Intel processor based "PowerMacs") to make a appearance as with this machine the video card is upgradable.
We don't know quite when that will be, but that would be the machine to get if your interested. If your happy with PPC G5 games then the Quad is your baby although not a 3D gamers weapon of choice because Mac's don't have near as many titles as PC's, although we do have a lot.
http://www.apple.com/games/articles/
http://appleintelfaq.com/

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