So I got an Intel Mac

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You guys need to realize that Xbench scores are pointless. They are in no way accurate, I'm still amazed people take them as an all-truth saying result on performance.

A better measurement of performance is for example, encoding speed of h.264 movies, rendering of transition effects in iMovie etc.

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aristotle-dude

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You guys need to realize that Xbench scores are pointless. They are in no way accurate, I'm still amazed people take them as an all-truth saying result on performance.

A better measurement of performance is for example, encoding speed of h.264 movies, rendering of transition effects in iMovie etc.

(Y) Xbench is completely useless as a benchmark. The scores will be different every time you run it depending on what you did just before.

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Izlude

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I took an inventory at a MAC store once. I messed around with macs there and I love the smoothness of them, but I'm never gonna see myself buying one because everything I run requires windows. I guess Virtual PC is an option, but stubbornness gets in the way (we humans are so picky) If OSX ever had the ability to run windows executables without the aid of emulators, then I'd jump right on it!

Or in fantasy world, think of this: If there was a combo OS of windows and osx, where there was a button on the desktop that you could press it and it could instantly swap operating systems. Call it FlipOS. That's my ideal machine. Surf and do all your nilly nally things on OSX while playing your games on Windows. Or even have a dual monitor system where windows was on one side and OSX was on the other!

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I took an inventory at a MAC store once. I messed around with macs there and I love the smoothness of them, but I'm never gonna see myself buying one because everything I run requires windows. I guess Virtual PC is an option, but stubbornness gets in the way (we humans are so picky) If OSX ever had the ability to run windows executables without the aid of emulators, then I'd jump right on it!

Or in fantasy world, think of this: If there was a combo OS of windows and osx, where there was a button on the desktop that you could press it and it could instantly swap operating systems. Call it FlipOS. That's my ideal machine. Surf and do all your nilly nally things on OSX while playing your games on Windows. Or even have a dual monitor system where windows was on one side and OSX was on the other!

KVM + Mac mini + PC = "FlipOS"

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ZTrang

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I took an inventory at a MAC store once. I messed around with macs there and I love the smoothness of them, but I'm never gonna see myself buying one because everything I run requires windows. I guess Virtual PC is an option, but stubbornness gets in the way (we humans are so picky) If OSX ever had the ability to run windows executables without the aid of emulators, then I'd jump right on it!

Or in fantasy world, think of this: If there was a combo OS of windows and osx, where there was a button on the desktop that you could press it and it could instantly swap operating systems. Call it FlipOS. That's my ideal machine. Surf and do all your nilly nally things on OSX while playing your games on Windows. Or even have a dual monitor system where windows was on one side and OSX was on the other!

Well, you could always set up a hardware switch that allows you to press a key combination on your keyboard and flip between two computers using one monitor, keyboard, mouse, speaker set, etc. - of course, you'd still have to own two separate computers, but what you're talking about does exist, in a way.

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MrA

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Or in fantasy world, think of this: If there was a combo OS of windows and osx, where there was a button on the desktop that you could press it and it could instantly swap operating systems. Call it FlipOS. That's my ideal machine. Surf and do all your nilly nally things on OSX while playing your games on Windows. Or even have a dual monitor system where windows was on one side and OSX was on the other!

Well, your dream isn't that far off. Virtualization can make that happen, and now that x86 chips have an extension to deal with it, it's one step closer to being part of the OS.

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Matt T

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Or in fantasy world, think of this: If there was a combo OS of windows and osx, where there was a button on the desktop that you could press it and it could instantly swap operating systems. Call it FlipOS. That's my ideal machine. Surf and do all your nilly nally things on OSX while playing your games on Windows. Or even have a dual monitor system where windows was on one side and OSX was on the other!

Imagine being able to switch between OS X and Windows just like you switch users; instantly with that cube effect.

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seta-san

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dude. could you do something for me and tell me if it works? Could you PLEASE download zsnes (www.zsnes.com) linux version. And if you don't already download XCode from apple's website and try to compile the linux version of zsnes? To compile a piece of linux code you need to type this IN the zsnes directory console(looks kinda like DOS) "./configure". This will get it doing stuff for a while. If it comes back with errors at the end could you please tell me? Should it come back with NO errors then you would need to do "make" in the console. Should the "make" command work please tell me. If both the "./configure" and "make" commands work without errors it will mean that macintosh just gained itself the BEST Super Nintendo emulater because of apple's switching to Intel.

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crazzyyfool

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FUNKY MONKEY- from your sig

"beautifully performing" is wrong ... it's "dutifully performing"

Thanks man. Sig updated now. :D

Thanks man, I emailed it over :)

Got it. Just a sec while it uploads. :D

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