On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, James Turner wrote: > > Speaking as a fellow Mac user, you are unfortunately in the worst > possible place in terms of bang-for-buck to use FlightGear - while your > Mac has plenty of horse-power in the general case, it wasn't that fast > at 3D when new, and you've no way to fix that. Apple tend not to ship > cutting edge GPUs in their computers.
This has become a huge issue recently with X-Plane users. Version 10 of XP is just *crushing* older Macs and people are up in arms about it. Nobody seems to understand that it's not the fault of the software - some of these guys have G5s and such and are just getting shellacked. If you're doing ANY kind of heavy 3D work, be it simulation or modeling, you can't tie yourself to a platform you can't at least incrementally upgrade. Doesn't matter what the OS is either - a Mac Pro can get periodic upgrades just like any other PC or Linux box. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! Buying desktop hardware and installing a server OS doesn't make a server-class system any more than sitting in a puddle makes you a duck. [Cipher in a.s.r] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
