Dualboxing on a laptop?

[Lumibox]

Hi, I have several questions about dualboxing on a laptop machine. Firstly, I'm wondering if this is at all viable, and if anyone's done it. Secondly, I am possibly going to be replacing my laptop soon, and am wondering what the ideal but minimum specs for a laptop would be if I was 2-boxing. I am looking to convert from Windows to Mac, but I don't even know if Keyclone runs on a Mac?

If anyone has any ideas about the pros and cons of using Mac vs Windows laptop to dualbox, if it is actually possible to do smoothly, I'd appreciate it. Looked a few pages back but didn't find any topics touching the subject. Thank you.

[Maxion]

I know several people on these forums box on their laptop, though for mac I believe they have to use a different program other than KeyClone.
For only running two accounts you will not have much problems as far as specs go, I believer many people here run 4-5 on their laptop.
But i'll let the people who actually do it themselves give the more definite answers on this.

[Moga]

Hi, I have several questions about dualboxing on a laptop machine. Firstly, I'm wondering if this is at all viable, and if anyone's done it. Secondly, I am possibly going to be replacing my laptop soon, and am wondering what the ideal but minimum specs for a laptop would be if I was 2-boxing. I am looking to convert from Windows to Mac, but I don't even know if Keyclone runs on a Mac?

If anyone has any ideas about the pros and cons of using Mac vs Windows laptop to dualbox, if it is actually possible to do smoothly, I'd appreciate it. Looked a few pages back but didn't find any topics touching the subject. Thank you.
I actually 4 box one of my laptops. When I 5box it tends to get too choppy for my tastes. I usually have to turn down graphics on the slaves, but my main usually gets 45+ FPS everywhere besides Shat and then it slows down considerably. I have a dell xps 1730 with 4g of ram, 2x512 nvidea graphics cards(sorry cant remember what series right now), intel P4 at 2.6ghz running Vista. The system is over a year old now and I paid way too much for it, but you could get away with dual boxing on less. As far as Mac vs Windows laptops I personally have no idea. Good luck though.

[mikekim]

keyclone doesnt run on a mac (unless you run xp under bootcamp or VMWare Fusion)

what you need to use is ClonedKeys

[hotilongstrike]

Just to make everyone laugh I dual box on;
dell xps m1210
intel core2 t7200 @ 2 ghz 2gb ram just motherboard video
as I am an over the road trucker I connect with a huawei ec228 aircard

and with this I am in dual boxing heaven, if by heaven you mean Dante's 5th ring of Hell.

But never fear Santa is on his way and we shall see :)

[r0guenj]

i 5box on a dell xps m1710.

slaves are at minimum settings (800x600) with just the view distance slightly turned up from default.
main is at 1280x1024 or larger with most settings at default.

it gets choppy in the cities but it is playable.

[Ellusionist]

The hardware is totally irrelevant. Mac, PC, whatever. It's the same hardware.

I've used Clonekeys on Mac OS, and you cannot change do-not-pass keys, which is real annoying. Mac OS also uses OpenGL, which is inferior to DirectX when running more than one client. Your framerate will drop TREMENDOUSLY because of software limitations, not hardware. Again, blame OpenGL.

Your main question should be "which operating system is okay to dual-box on?"

The answer is easy: Windows XP or Vista.

I five-boxed on a MacBook Pro (early 2008 model) until I reached the level where I needed to enter Shattrath City. Level 63/64-ish - It ran fine. Shattrath wasn't happening. At all. The key was running Windows XP via Boot Camp. Even with virtual software like Parallels or VMware Fusion, it ain't happenin'. Emulation is a big no-no with realtime rendered graphics!

Macbook? Hell no. Had one, running ONE client got 17fps in Shat. Terrible for gaming! (Early 2008 Model)
Macbook Pro? Sure. As long as you're running Windows. (DirectX)
PC Laptop with specs comparable to a regular Macbook? Hell no.
PC Laptop with specs comparable to a Macbook Pro? Sure.

The hardware is irrelevant as long as you're comparing apples-to-apples. (Specs)

If you're only running two clients, I'd say you'll be alright on a Macbook Pro in Windows. I did it with five clients.