Is my MAC Experiment Over

The memory upgrade for my MAC powerbook has now arrived, but the performance gains I was hoping for in Virtual PC have not.

Virtual PC for the MAC seems perfectly OK at running MS Office and other business applications but once it gets faced with an application like VS2005 that is continually running multiple threads to support things like intellisence then the performance just isnt there. I'm not saying it would be imposible to develop under it and in my life as a consultant I have seen people trying to develop applications on PC's slower than Virtual PC but really I cant justify the performance penalty to use it as my daily development tool.

This now leaves me in a difficult situation. You see I have fallen in love with my MAC. It is wonderull in so many ways that I just cant even contemplate giving it up. For email , web browsing , word processing , accessing my digital camera, news reading etc it is just so darn good.

So I am now condemed to carrrying around two laptops until I get totally fed up or Virtual PC becomes available for the new Intel based MacBooks and I can try my experiement again. So much for progress.