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    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?

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    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.
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    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
    5-box [Draenei Paladin & 4 Shaman] Team - Overload - EU Quel'Thalas
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    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.

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    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

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    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
    Altaholic

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    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
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    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.

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    come in .. and find out

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

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