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Re: Getting Mac, need to know more about Boot Camp.
« on: March 10, 2007, 04:37:51 PM »
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Or shall we call it concentration camp consider what it's used for. ;)

 Ok, so what I would like to know is if Bootcamp can in any way be used to boot up AROS, or BeOS or something to that effect, or if it strictly limits you to Winblows.


Due to a problem with GRUB (the AROS bootloader software), AROS won't boot in Bootcamp... but pretty much anyother OS will... An Sonic's recent work on AROS should free AROS from the custom version of Grub we currently use... so expect AROS to work some time soon...

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 Also under emulation, how well would Windows run on one of those Mac Mini's with a 1.8Ghz Dual Core CPU and 1Gb or RAM?


Emulation?  None needed, just use a VM like Parallels... that will run any x86 OS at ful speed, except with respect to GFX... so 3D games are going to hurt a bit.

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 I've seen classic GL games like Unreal and DuesEx run on a Mac under emulation and it ran well, I am just curious if the 1.8Ghz model could pull that off?

 Thankx in advance!


Should run, but won't be brilliant....

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Re: Getting Mac, need to know more about Boot Camp.
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2007, 05:23:17 PM »
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motorollin wrote:
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I've seen classic GL games like Unreal and DuesEx run on a Mac under emulation and it ran well, I am just curious if the 1.8Ghz model could pull that off?

Should run, but won't be brilliant....

Will run fine under Boot Camp, but not at all under Parallels as it doesn't support 3D acceleration.

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Quite right, under Boot camp everything Windows is native and you get full native performance.