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[MF]Shade
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:26 pm |
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Or maybe he also installed the OSX SDK's and is planning on some sweet Cocoa app? |
*Eyes light up*
One can only hope . |
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MeanMF
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:09 pm |
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Hehe I haven't gotten into Cocoa yet...all of the xlink one stuff is cross-platform at the moment. |
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MeanMF
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Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:48 pm |
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[MF]Shade
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Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:55 pm |
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Damn straight. I see a bright future ahead for the sales of macs, and also for my gaming dreams . |
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MeanMF
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Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:56 pm |
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Mwahahahahaha
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amadeus
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Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:07 pm |
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ok, now I would like a Macbook Pro |
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Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:49 am |
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I was asleep during the announcement.. downloading the dmg right now
Only reason I didn't go the onmac.net path was due to me formatting.. now I don't need to
Apple are on the ball.. |
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Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:51 am |
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Also note that Apple is working with Microsoft to bring Universal Binaries to Windows..
A rumour as of now, but I don't see it being incorrect either.. that means more software for Macs, since build it on a Mac, and you can get it working on OS X, Windows, Linux essentially..
Good news all round |
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MeanMF
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Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:20 am |
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I was asleep during the announcement.. downloading the dmg right now
Only reason I didn't go the onmac.net path was due to me formatting.. now I don't need to
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Ya the install is very smooth.. The only problem I had was that I was trying to install XP SP2 from a MSDN DVD with multiple images on it, and it wouldn't let me select an option at the boot menu. I burned the .iso version to a CD and it worked fine.
XP is running great. Vista? Not so much. |
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Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:07 am |
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Wow how fast does XP run on this thing MeanMF? Just playing around with it now, and it's damn fast..
Now to find my copy of Half-Life 2 |
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[MF]Shade
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Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:20 pm |
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I've heard that on the new iMacs can run FarCry and Doom 3 in full resolution and every thing set to high at decent frame rates . |
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[MF]Shade
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Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:03 pm |
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Back in Windows, I got right down to business and installed a few games to put the graphics and sound support to the test. The quick and dirty verdict on performance? Most impressive. Doom 3 and Far Cry both ran smoothly with high-end graphics options turned on.
In both cases, I had to tweak visual settings manually, since the games automatically set themselves to very low settings. Far Cry, for example, autodetected very low settings, but it ran without a hitch when I bumped the resolution up to 1280 by 720, with all visual quality options set to "High."
Our 20-inch iMac came with a 2.0-GHz Core Duo processor, 1GB of RAM, and an ATI Radeon X1600 graphics card with 128MB of GDDR3 memory. That's roughly equivalent to a high-end laptop machine, and anecdotally the performance I obtained was about what I'd have expected from that type of PC.
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Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:53 am |
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Someone reads digg
I'm actually using Parallels Workstation 2.1 Beta now, since it's more practical for my testing.. takes about 6 seconds to boot up and get to desktop |
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amadeus
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Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:35 am |
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(I saw that Digg too )hows performance? |
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[MF]Shade
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Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:24 pm |
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Digg ftw . |
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Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:51 am |
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Performance in the VM under VT is no way as good as native, but it's usable, and much faster than when I had VMware running hacked OSX 10.4.3 under XP.
You would use it strictly for testing which is all I need it for.
Oh, and I've moved to skEdit now. Goodbye jEdit. |
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