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z11355
rrMaster
Location: 10000 is enough time wasted.

Finally a voice of reason.

I use all of those on a daily basis and they all have
their pros/cons.

Funny how it's always the people that have never used anything
other than the one thing they have that preach the loudest
about their own superiority.
03-24-2006 Over year old.
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pilotError
Key Veteran
Location: Long Island, NY

EFI

I just read that Microsoft is pulling EFI support out of Vista...

Hmmm, I wonder why???

Good Judgement comes from Experience. Great Judgement comes from Bad Experience.
03-24-2006 Over year old.
 
 
z11355
rrMaster
Location: 10000 is enough time wasted.

are you implying that they're pulling it due to 'fear' that
people will run Win on Mac hardware?

Already done.

Ultimately, it's in MS's advantage but hey, maybe they just
couldn't make it work given the multi-year lateness that
is Vista.

They've pulled many new features out of Vista. It's fascinating
to watch them implode in their inability to produce a new
version of their main product w/o multi-year delays.
03-24-2006 Over year old.
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cosh
Senior Heliman
Location: Leeds

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

Read it and weep PC lovers

UK Leeds
04-07-2006 Over year old.
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electricdurango
Veteran
Location: Sterling, VA

Have read reviews on Boot Camp on a new macbook pro's. People are running realflight 3.5 on full graphic settings and say its incredible. They are also using apple DVI to DB15 and hooking it up to their large screen HD TV's!!! 42inch widescreen reaflight g3.5.,,,,, NICE!!!!
11-11-2006 Over year old.
 
 
kaptkaos
Key Veteran
Location: Miami FL

I run OSX on an Intel and its awesome. You can dual-boot with Windows.
If you have an Intel based Mac, you can run Parallels emulator and it will perform at almost native speeds as long as you have one of the dual cores with 2 GB ram or greater.

I actually run Linux, OSX, and Windows on my Laptop....I always need to keep a Windows machine around for work or for games. Give it 5 more years and MAC and Linux will be much more prevalent, now that they have a viable platform, which they didnt until recently. It will take some time for the word to spread but I see more and more people running OSX and Linux.

Ubuntu 6.10 is a great OS...OSX is better and faster, but software is not free. Windows just keeps becoming a bigger and bigger pig with more lipstick!

If you give a Chimp a gun, and the Chimp shoots, DONT BLAME THE CHIMP!!!!
11-11-2006 Over year old.
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miked37945
Heliman
Location: Riverdale, IL

I'm running a Mac Pro and a MacBook Pro with WinXP as a second operating system. I use WinXP for my RealFlight G3.5 only and it runs great on both machines! I don't anticipate Reflex or GreatPlanes doing a Mac version and don't care either.
For all you "Mac is better" "Windows is better" people, stop wasting time arguing. The best computer for anyone is the one they want to use!
11-12-2006 Over year old.
 
 
Shadowfox
Senior Heliman
Location: ABQ,NM

So my next puter (mac) can load G3 using this Apple Bootcamp feature??

and what Apple should I get to make G3 sing? Id spend prob 2000$ on a apple laptop.
11-12-2006 Over year old.
 
 
SilverWings
Heliman
Location: Oklahoma City, OK

Running G3.5 on my iMAC...

One consumer voting his $$ here:

I just purchased a 20" iMAC. 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; 1GB 667 MHz SDRAM; ATI Radeon X1600 128Mb and (of course) Bootcamp into WinXP Pro.

G3.5 runs with full complexity at a minimum of about 70fps and I routinely see 90-100 fps. Its glass smooth. If you want more 3D speed you can get the X1600 with, I think, 256Mb on board. Oh yes, and I can pipe the digital video out to my 50" Sony SXRD and have a really BIG time.

Realflight will NOT run in Parallels (XP emulation) mode however.

One happy camper here with OS10X !!!

No Bucks, no Buck Rogers
11-12-2006 Over year old.
 
 
tykomyk
Heliman
Location: North Hills, CA - USA

Reflext XTR on iMac

Glad to hear that G3 is working well for you Silverwing.

I'm running Bootcamp with XP Pro om my 20" iMac Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz, 1GB ram, ATI x1600 256MB.

Reflext XTR works great on it. Running at a constant 60fps(I'm not sure if it goes higher than this).
11-12-2006 Over year old.
 
 
electricdurango
Veteran
Location: Sterling, VA

I just got my Macbook Pro 2.16 Friday. I sold my imac g4 last week. I got the base model with my mothers educational discount. I think around 1800. I just need to go buy a legit Windows XP Disc.

Do I run xp or xp pro for realflight 3.5 performance?
11-12-2006 Over year old.
 
 
z11355
rrMaster
Location: 10000 is enough time wasted.

google this........

'windows xp sp2 oem'
11-12-2006 Over year old.
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tykomyk
Heliman
Location: North Hills, CA - USA

Performance with Realflight on XP vs. XP Pro is going to be the same. XP Pro just comes with a few more bells and whistles. If you're just going to run Realflight, then XP is fine.

One place you can find the OEM version is at: http://newegg.com
11-12-2006 Over year old.
 
 
pasi
Heliman
Location: Helsinki - Finland

Reflext XTR + macbook + parallers + winxp

Hey,

Have anyone tested Reflex XTR on Macbook using winxp installed on Parallers Desktop?

I tried that, but I could not get connected to my transmitter. Immediately after plugged dongle to usb parallers says that "USB device you are trying to connect to the virtual machine is being used by another process. Wait 5-10 seconds, then try to connect the device again. If this does not help, find the application that blocked up the device and disconnect it manually"

Any suggestions how to get that working.

Thanks
-pasi
01-03-2007 Over year old.
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z11355
rrMaster
Location: 10000 is enough time wasted.

Parallels doesn't support accelerated graphics.

but.... the new version of Parallels can boot off a BootCamp
partition so you only need the one install of XP
01-03-2007 Over year old.
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pasi
Heliman
Location: Helsinki - Finland

Reflext XTR + macbook + parallers + winxp

OK, It might not work....

"No hardware accelerated video adapter could be detected. A fluent simulation may not be possible.

Restart reflex in a different screen resolution or reinstall the most recent video drivers. A more advanced video adapter could solve the problem as well"
01-03-2007 Over year old.
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pasi
Heliman
Location: Helsinki - Finland

Reflext XTR + macbook + parallers + winxp

z11355, damn you are fast!!!

I think I have newest version of Parallers... So I need to install bootcamp and XP on there and then I can run it using Parallers?


Thanks
-pasi
01-03-2007 Over year old.
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pariah
Senior Heliman
Location: West Valley City, UT - United States of America

I can't say for certain, as I don't have an Intel Mac (yet), but I've done a lot of virtualization in the past. (ie. virtualization is the thing Parallels does).

Keep in mind, I ususally do virtualization on a non Mac OS (either Windows or Linux, using VMware), however, 3D acceleration with virtualization is pretty tricky. I have pretty serious doubts that any product on any OS does it well enough to run a R/C Simulator.

I seriously doubt you're going to be able to get 3D acceleration in Parallels. (Similar story with VMware Fusion, I imagine). Parallels is fine for office applications (and even some older 2D games), but don't expect 3D applications to work.

I haven't checked the status of other (non-virtualization) efforts, such as WINE or TransGaming's offering on Mac; Wine tries to implement Windows on its target OS; TransGaming is more or less an offshoot of wine as well.

Both allow some 3D Windows programs to run under Linux (and if you can do that, Mac shouldn't be too hard either...) But the performance is 25% or more slower (if it runs at all).

Bottom line: Don't expect to get the required 3D acceleration on a Mac unless you use Boot Camp (ie. boot to Windows natively).


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Helicopters & Women: The last thing I want is one whose head has a few loose screws.
01-03-2007 Over year old.
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z11355
rrMaster
Location: 10000 is enough time wasted.

right. the only thing that is going to work is to run XP via a BootCamp
partition.

LIke I said, the very latest Beta version of Parallels will run from that
BootCamp partition (or a virtualized one too). w/o that new feature,
you'd need 2 XP installations, one for Bootcamp and the other one
loaded into the virtual machine.

Also, the new Coherence mode is great. It hides the windows desktop
so the XP applications 'float' on the Finder.
01-04-2007 Over year old.
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caulkhead
Heliman
Location: UK

Phoenix sim

As a matter of interest the new Phoenix sim runs superbly on my Mac-Book Pro 1.83 duo core with 128 ati video and 1.5gb ram. Its running on the partition using bootcamp. Also if demand is sufficient the guys at Phoenix may produce a Mac version. I hope this helps.
01-05-2007 Over year old.
 
 
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