I ahve a 600mhz ibook and as i have just migrated from PC to mac (which i did with little regret) but there is still windows based software such as kazaa that is not available for mac (yet). I made the mistake of buying Virtual PC 5 for X and found it was incredibly SLOW! it was more like virtual-unusable than virtual pc. If there are other OS X based PC emulators that run at good speed, could someone tell me please!!!

Wow. You *bought* VPC so you could pirate software and music. The irony of that just really seems quite amusing to me. You *are* aware that peer-to-peer clients exist for the Mac, and that Kazaa is doing lots of network voodoo without your knowledge behind the scenes while you use it, right? VPC is as good as it gets, kid. Either learn to deal with it or toss it. p

Apart from Limewire which is sh±t, i cant find any other good peer-to-peer software that even comes close to what kazaa can do on mac. i heard of a aparently good one but you have to pay for it. please let me know of other mac p2p apps, cos as i say, limewire is a huge piece of sh±t that can barely download a fire 3mb or bigger!

I have the same ibook as you,and virtual pc 5,it's slow running widows,but keep in mind it's not only windows running on your computer it's also running os x,as for kazaa if you install it in the emulated pc it still shares your os x internet connection,just make sure it's connected thru os and not win,after down loading just drag and drop to your mac enviroment. As for cd-burning I can't find a way to get vpc to reconize my combo drive,also did you visit connectix and apple for upgrades?.

Unless you need to burn CDs in something other than Mac HFS format, you can just grab the files from a shared drive in VPC and burn them on the Mac side of things. If you need to burn ISO9660 or Joliet or something like that, you need Toast, which will then take care of any burning needs you have *also* on the Mac side of things. p

Stevie and others, I have had much success with a gnutella program called Aquisition. It's a lot like Limewire, except it's compact, fast, and less demanding. I guess that means it's nothing like Limewire. Good Luck