iMac or Mac Mini?

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Thanks! What kind of framerate do you get running two accounts on your iMac?

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Thanks! What kind of framerate do you get running two accounts on your iMac?

I'm running 5 accounts.

I have the 2.8Ghz 24" iMac, 4 gigs ram, and the HD Radeon 2600 Pro. I run an external 20" monitor next to it, through the display port.

This is why you want the iMac - the new 21.5" with the good video card will run 5 with no effort at all, and you can put 8 gigs in (DO NOT buy Apple's ram, you can get it dirt cheap elsewhere, and it's dead easy to install). Drop $30 for the adapter, and throw a second monitor in.

My frame rates are usually very decent, 30-40 is about average, probably higher in some areas. I could cap the slave accounts at 30, but it doesn't seem to be an issue. Dalaran can be painful when it's full, as is the ToC area, but other than that, no issues.

Also, don't copy the folders to run more than one. Do the symbolic link technique, where you just copy the app and links to the original folders. It makes it a lot easier to manage, and I get better performance:

http://www.wowwiki.com/Mac - look about halfway down the page. It's pretty easy, don't be intimidated by the Terminal.

There's two "gotchas" in this to be aware of:

One, you have to create a "wowcopy.sh" as part of the process - and they say to use TextEdit. Problem is, TextEdit cannot write .sh files, so download a shareware text editor like TextWrangler to create the file.

Two, if you want more than one copy, you create the first copy, then rename it "Wow2" or whatever, otherwise you'll just keep overwriting the same file.