ACCESS on a new iBook?

[Jason O]

Hi,

Has anyone any experience on running Access under Virtual PC or similar? I
have a new model iBook 1.42 Ghz, 512MB RAM (soon to be upped to 1 GB) and
10.4.6.

I'm wanting it to brush up my knowledge for use at work so won't be using
huge data sets, just playing with new builds & small amounts of test data.

I don't really want to buy an old PC just for this so just wanted to check
it wouldn't be unusably slow under virtualisation software.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Jason
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[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Jason,

Microsoft Access works fine in Virtual PC. Yes, it's slightly sluggish,
but quite usable.

-Jim

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Jason -

Just to reaffirm Jim's reply, I run Access 2000 in WinXP through VPC 7
without any problems at all. My system is a dual 2GHz G5, 1.5 GB RAM & speed
is not a significant issue, but is noticeably slower than a P4 PC. The move
to 1 GB is a step in the right direction & disk space may also be an issue.

 

[Jason O]

Hi Jason -

Just to reaffirm Jim's reply, I run Access 2000 in WinXP through VPC 7
without any problems at all. My system is a dual 2GHz G5, 1.5 GB RAM & speed
is not a significant issue, but is noticeably slower than a P4 PC. The move
to 1 GB is a step in the right direction & disk space may also be an issue.

Thanks both for the advice. Just what I was after - some balanced advice
from people who had actually used it. So looks like I'll up the RAM and see
how it goes.

Would Virtual PC allow me to link to or import data from my mac version of
excel?

Thanks again

Jason
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[CyberTaz]

With VPC you can access your Mac volumes directly and edit the *same* files
using PC XL as well as Mac XL.

Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[google]

Would Virtual PC allow me to link to or import data from my mac version of
excel?

If you want to connect to an MS Access database from the Mac version of
Excel, you can use the ODBC Driver for Access from Actual Technologies:

http://www.actualtechnologies.com/product_access.php

It will let you import data from an MDB file into a spreadsheet without
using Virtual PC or a Windows box.

Jonathan Monroe
Actual Technologies - ODBC for Mac OS X
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

.... and now you can install Windows and Microsoft Access on the Intel
Macs. You have to choose which OS to boot to, but you can save to a
common file location.

-Jim