Quote Originally Posted by 'Schwarz',index.php?page=Thread&postID=41096#post4 1096
Has anyone tried 5 boxing on an iMac with a ram upgrade? I was thinking that they only way to really 5 box with a single mac would be going with the mac pro. I would love to stick with macs but I don't see the point spending ~$2.8k for a mac pro when I can build a pc for ~1.8k. Just wondering what results you guys have tried.

I myself have 5 boxed on my macbook. It was really laggy. I would bring up the 5 wow's and stack them one on top of each other. I cleared Ragefire Chasm and was working on WC. WC was hard with all the pats that would run into me. Going into the ORG was a freakin nightmare.
You'll find it just as bad on your imac as you did on your macbook.

I 5 box on my imac (aluminum 24") with maxed ram (4gb) and got almost the exact same performance on that than on my macbook pro (also maxed on the ram).

Overall - Its possible but its not optimal. I'm going to be putting in an order for a mac pro here shortly - its really all about the memory. I think that if they made imacs more expandable in the memory arena we'd have no problems 5 boxing on these. I need the machine anyways for running more virtual machines for working so maybe I can write it off or something 8|