Apple Mac

[EdwardN]

Anyone out there multiboxing on Apple Mac's?

I run three clients on 2 PC's and that runs fine but I am about to buy and apple Mac to do design work on. I am not sure about Mac OS and if there are any particular issues that others have run up against multiboxing them?

[zanthor]

There are folks out there doing it, check the software forums for CloneKeys, there is a version thats been continued on by a new maintainer, etc...

Another option that lots seem to use is Bootcamp. Lets them run Winders on their fruit.

[tzibo]

I box with 2 macs and a pc. I've not had any issues outside of the normal challenges we face. Clonedkeys (Clonekeys) replaces Keyclone, and Synergy is your friend :)

[Caspian]

Make sure to upgrade to an Nvidia graphics card. I think they have 8600-8800 available depending on the model you get.

I boxed up to 4 on a dual G5 with an AGP ATI 850 and did ok under OS X. 5 hurt.

[RogueLover]

I would like more info on this as well. I have a PC and an iMac and would like to use my PC as my main machine, while having my iMac run as a slave/client. Synergy seems to be confusing me when it comes to cross-OS configuring. If anyone has any ideas/help, that would be GREAT! I tried to download the key broadcasting version of Synergy for both my mac and pc. But couldn't get it up and running. I'm somewhat computer savvy, but I have my limits.

:-D

[wetstreet]

I'm running 5 clients on a Macbook Pro (2.3Ghz, 3Gig RAM, X1600). Cities get laggy and I have to keep the windows overlapped to make it run well.

What I should do is take some time and get my PC running again to offload a client or two and configure Synergy for it. That or convince my wife to let me buy a Mac Pro with 8 cores and gobs of ram. However, I think she would hit me with a nerf stick just for asking. :P

[mikekim]

i dualbox on a 2.5ghz macbook pro (when I'm away from my main rig) using clonekeys. both instances running 800 x 600 (windows overlapping) quite high settings running at 30fps each

[lacitpo]

I'm boxing on a 17 inch macbook pro. I'm currently at 2gb of ram but have upgrades to 4gb coming in the mail tomorrow.

2 boxing is fine for PVE. Some might think PVP would be too slow. probably around 30 FPS on both clients. Higher if I drop the FPS on my background instances.

3 boxing is also just fine for PVE. Probably being a little bit low for PVP though I'm not sure. I'm sure it'd be fine for some people. Probably still hitting 25+ FPS on my main instance with 3boxin

havn't specifically 4 boxed, but 5 boxing was UBER slow. I could go around the world and do stuff but I was probably not going over 10 FPS. I'll update when I get my ram tomorrow.

Oh, I'm using ClonedKeys (http://code.google.com/p/clonedkeys/) and it's got active development thanks to Alphaquam.

I havn't figured out a good system for interfacing my mac with a PC yet, though I havn't spent a ton of time trying.

[vinylger]

come in .. and find out

thanks a lot for the ClonedKeys link for MAC OSX 8o
keep up the good work!