hello all. thanks for great resources.

im still on the learning curve. been using mac with plexer. things are mostly working...... but....... I can't help but want more. I swore off windows several years ago, but those demo vids on ISboxer are very compelling.

What i think i want: ISBOXER. 5 clients on one machine. has to be a laptop. i could live with less than perfect video/fps stuff on slaves, but i can imagine doing pvp and having to switch to slave to continue the good fight.

my current laptop is: 2.53 intel duo, 4GB @ 1067Mhz, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT with 512MB
it gets a little shaky with 3, but is def playable. I have tweaked a few video settings, but bet i could do more. having hard time making enough room for bootcamp partition, but could be persuaded.

The question:
new macbook pro running bootcamp

2.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7
4GB 1333MHz <- im sure i could upgrade that to 8
AMD Radeon HD 6750M with 1GB GDDR5


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m17X alienware

Intel® Core™ i7 2630QM 2.0GHz (2.8GHz Turbo Mode, 6MB Cache)
8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz
1.5GB GDDR5 Nvidia GeForce GTX 460M

From the million other post i have read, looks like the M17x would have no trouble with this? I think the new macbook pro could do it? not sure its worth the trouble of massaging my current mac to test it?


thanks again for feeding my new addiction
dave.