Simviation Forum - What's wrong with this picture?

Jan 12^th, 2007 at 6:23pm

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Shot courtesy of Dominic Smith.

http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/review/bootcamp.htm

This is rather alarming to see a Microsoft Sim on a Mac. Roll Eyes

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Reply #1 - Jan 12^th, 2007 at 6:56pm

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You learn something new every day! Grin

Nice.

Macs - still to £££-SSS-€€€!

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Reply #2 - Jan 12^th, 2007 at 7:00pm

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Looks to me it is running Windows XP on a Apple monitor Wink

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Reply #3 - Jan 12^th, 2007 at 9:34pm

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The stick's on the wrong side!

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Reply #4 - Jan 12^th, 2007 at 10:20pm

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It's FS9!

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Reply #5 - Jan 13^th, 2007 at 4:47am

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Politically Incorrect wrote on Jan 12^th, 2007 at 7:00pm:

Looks to me it is running Windows XP on a Apple monitor Wink

Ahem...read the linked article. Roll Eyes

The program also claims it will run FSX.

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Reply #6 - Jan 13^th, 2007 at 9:18am

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1: You have to many background tasks Tongue

2: It's a Mac Tongue

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Reply #7 - Jan 13^th, 2007 at 10:07am

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Mushroom_Farmer wrote on Jan 13^th, 2007 at 4:47am:

Politically Incorrect wrote on Jan 12^th, 2007 at 7:00pm:

Looks to me it is running Windows XP on a Apple monitor Wink

Ahem...read the linked article. Roll Eyes

The program also claims it will run FSX.

The question was what is wrong with this picture? not click the link and read the article. Roll Eyes

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Reply #8 - Jan 15^th, 2007 at 9:37pm

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Maybe it's just MY eyes, but do i see the sim open 4 times? Undecided

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Reply #9 - Jan 16^th, 2007 at 6:51am

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Seems a Mac can't handle it it is still only 5% loaded and its been a few days. Grin

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Reply #10 - Jan 17^th, 2007 at 12:40pm

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You can run Windows in OSX. Best of both worlds. Grin

Be interesting to see how FSX is handled by a full spec macPro.

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Reply #11 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 1:11am

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Woodlouse2002 wrote on Jan 17^th, 2007 at 12:40pm:

You can run Windows in OSX. Best of both worlds. Grin

Be interesting to see how FSX is handled by a full spec macPro.

Actually there is no need. As long as you have two drives, you can dual boot. OSX on one drive for editing, XP on the other for actual computing. And yes Vista has been booted on a MacBook Pro, and a Mac Pro.

As far as gaming goes, because they have support for x86 drivers you can actually use real spec gaming cards in a Mac. Therefore I would expect a Dual Xeon (4 cores total) with 16GB of RAM, 4 Raptors in a RAID0 and a 8800GTX would crush the hell out of FSX. Now finding a Mac with a 8800GTX just isnt going to happen, a FireGL card maybe.

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Reply #12 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 8:09am

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ctjoyce wrote on Jan 18^th, 2007 at 1:11am:

Woodlouse2002 wrote on Jan 17^th, 2007 at 12:40pm:

You can run Windows in OSX. Best of both worlds. Grin

Be interesting to see how FSX is handled by a full spec macPro.

Actually there is no need. As long as you have two drives, you can dual boot. OSX on one drive for editing, XP on the other for actual computing. And yes Vista has been booted on a MacBook Pro, and a Mac Pro.

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If you read the article this guy has done that by partitioning his HD.

As for a macpro with a G8800, it is unlikely. I'd expect apple to wait a bit before choosing the DX10 graphics card they use.

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Reply #13 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 3:25pm

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bloody small screen

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Reply #14 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 6:12pm

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waspiflab wrote on Jan 18^th, 2007 at 3:25pm:

bloody small screen

Thats the whole computer. Not just the screen.

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