OSX / Mac / Apple boxers - check in

[lacitpo]

I think there's an old thread laying around from a year ago or something, but I thought I'd put the feelers out there and see how many mac boxers there are floating about.

Inviting all the OSX boxers to pop into this thread and maybe give a quick rundown of your setup and why you have opted to use OSX rather than an alternative.

I currently 3-box on an 2006 macbook pro. I have a brand new 27 inch i7 iMac on order scheduled to arrive right around Christmas which I'll be using to 5box. I like OSX as an operating system, though I know it is not for everything and definitely costs more than it's PC equivalent. I have thought about installing Bootcamp in the past, but I PVE with my team and haven't needed the high level of control that some of the PC software solutions offer. The tools that have been available for multiboxing on a mac have been thin in the past but usable, and now with Plexer (thnx owensd) things are brighter than ever for mac boxers.

[Perrigrin]

I'm currently PC boxing (a SSD based older machine which runs 5 instances fine) - I am however debating to go Mac - But need the portable.

Any input on the viability of 5-boxing on a MBP would be great.

[Jayne]

Also running an iMac and everything is heaven - except that the current version of Plexer can't remember the position or size of the WoW windows so it takes a minute to get everything in place. I've chosen to run OSX simply because I really dislike Windows, and if I don't have to install it to multibox, I won't!

[Fef]

I have been 5-boxing on Macs for close to 2 years now. First on an iMac, now on a Mac Pro.

In both cases, it has been under Windows/Bootcamp, though. I now have a small SSD drive in the Mac Pro that has only Windows and WoW on it. I never do anything else in Windows than play WoW.

[Perrigrin]

Fef, I would be very curious how you set that up?

Which MBP do you have? Does it work with a standard intel SSD (which I have laying around)? How many screens do you use, any other hardware considerations? How does it work in Dalaran/AV/WG?

[Fef]

Fef, I would be very curious how you set that up?

Which MBP do you have? Does it work with a standard intel SSD (which I have laying around)? How many screens do you use, any other hardware considerations? How does it work in Dalaran/AV/WG?

Sorry, I don't run a MBP but a Mac Pro, the big heavy thing that could hardly be called a portable

[Holmeser]

Hi
I'm 5 boxing on a Macbook Pro 4,1 and it runs pretty smoothly. Got a new 27inch i7 imac but its more of a family computer so i dont wanna become dependant on it.
THanks
HOlmeser

[Perrigrin]

Hi
I'm 5 boxing on a Macbook Pro 4,1 and it runs pretty smoothly. Got a new 27inch i7 imac but its more of a family computer so i dont wanna become dependant on it.
THanks
HOlmeser

Hmm, I'm not that savvy on apples yet - which one is the MBP 4,1?

[Holmeser]

Its the one that originally shipped with the white macbooks, i think in january 2007.

[lacitpo]

@Perrigrin

My older (2005/2006?) macbook pro could 5box just fine for anything PVE back when BC was the latest expac. Currently I'm limited at about 4 boxing it seems, but I believe it has more to do with supreme hard drive fragmentation and the need for OS cleanup. If you want really high end performance, a macbook pro probably won't give you what you might desire for 5boxing, but will allow you to 5box on the go. I used an auxillery monitor for my setup, with 4 gridded out on one screen and my main taking up my main screen.

Recommend getting a USB keyboard so you don't have to fumble with the compact laptop keyboard.