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Title: New Quad Mac Pro Just Arrived
Post by: OSS542 on September 12, 2006, 12:16:35 PM

Setting it up now.....Just wanted to share the joy  :-D

Planning on dual boot OSX/Linux setup....any thoughts greatly appreciated....

Title: Re: New Quad Mac Pro Just Arrived
Post by: adolescent on September 12, 2006, 06:00:03 PM

Why not put XP on it and make it useful?  :-P

Title: Re: New Quad Mac Pro Just Arrived
Post by: cecilia on September 12, 2006, 07:15:35 PM

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OSS542 wrote:
Setting it up now.....Just wanted to share the joy  :-D

Planning on dual boot OSX/Linux setup....any thoughts greatly appreciated....

i'm jealous! will you be trying Ubuntu or another distro?

Title: Re: New Quad Mac Pro Just Arrived
Post by: uncleted on September 15, 2006, 09:15:21 PM

I wonder if it will be fast enough to run E-UAE acceptably in a window.

Title: Re: New Quad Mac Pro Just Arrived
Post by: Pete_K on September 16, 2006, 12:18:37 AM

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uncleted wrote:
I wonder if it will be fast enough to run E-UAE acceptably in a window.

The latest benchmarks indicate that it will run an infinite loop in six seconds.

Title: Re: New Quad Mac Pro Just Arrived
Post by: T_Bone on September 16, 2006, 02:54:03 AM

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Pete_K wrote:

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uncleted wrote:
I wonder if it will be fast enough to run E-UAE acceptably in a window.

The latest benchmarks indicate that it will run an infinite loop in six seconds.

only if you use newest GCC and "--Omfg optimised"