So I finally got a Mac..

Posted: 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? Very Happy

*Eyes light up* Very Happy

One can only hope Smile

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Team XLink Administrator Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 5024

Hehe I haven't gotten into Cocoa yet...all of the xlink one stuff is cross-platform at the moment.

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 5024

Aaah, now that's more like it: http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:55 pm

Damn straight. I see a bright future ahead for the sales of macs, and also for my gaming dreams Smile

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Team XLink Administrator Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 5024

Mwahahahahaha Twisted Evil

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1223

ok, now I would like a Macbook Pro Smile

Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:49 am

I was asleep during the announcement.. downloading the dmg right now Smile

Only reason I didn't go the onmac.net path was due to me formatting.. now I don't need to Smile

Apple are on the ball..

Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:51 am

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 Smile

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 5024

guest wrote:

I was asleep during the announcement.. downloading the dmg right now Smile

Only reason I didn't go the onmac.net path was due to me formatting.. now I don't need to Smile

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.

Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:07 am

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 Very Happy

Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:20 pm

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 Cool

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Posted: 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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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:53 am

Someone reads digg Very Happy

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 Very Happy

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1223

(I saw that Digg too Wink

)hows performance?

Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:24 pm

Digg ftw

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Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:51 am

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.