Sent by Sarah Atkinson on 14 February 2005 18:06
Might it be cheaper to purchase a used PC? you might not be able to run XP but you would still get
an idea what PC users using IE would see. I bought an old PII Win 2000 machine back in December for
$40.
Sarah
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Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 10:23 AM
To: CSS-D; Maria Falconer
Subject: Re: [css-d] Virtual pc?
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I think Virtual PC is well suited to website testing, because with
multiple virtual machines you can run any version of IE you like (I
ultimately test on IE 4, 5.0, 5.5, and 6), as well as of course various
versions of other browsers.
Also, by setting it to not save changes to the virtual Hard Drive, you
are effectively immune to Windows viruses and spyware, as any changes
to the PC get wiped out when you Quit the program. This also gives you
a fresh clean browser cache every time.
VPC is too slow for a lot of things, but for web testing it works
great. :)
Steve
On Feb 1, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Maria Falconer wrote:
> I don't have access everyday to a pc to test, is it worth
> purchasing virtual pc for the mac? Would this give me a good
> indication of
> what's happening on browsers on a pc?
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