I am thinking about compiling an ugly* windows machine for gaming, like Cities Skylines and serious flight simming, and keep my mac cool for the more creative activities. I do fine with my rig below, but it does come with a lot of tweaking to keep fps>20 while maintaining acceptable visual quality, and being a smart follower on add-ons in development. if you got rudder pedals and other extra wired hardware features, you run out of USB-sockets easily. not such a great performance for the money spended. less compatibility with very nice mods and plugins, like environment and weather rendering plugins, Pilot2ATC, clients for online flying e.g. less opportunities with OpenGL then Windows: so no outside-image distorting rain-effects on your windshields and other contemporary eye-candy It is so nice that the main platform for development is mac os x for X-plane, but there are a lot of shortcomings: It is easy sharing data between the iPhone and iPad too) I bought it because of the performance for 3D-design, animation, photography, video-editing and other artwork. I do have a powered USB hub to add more ports.įirst my mac came (because the design blends nicely in the interior of my study, and I like the monitor. Easily 30-40 fps around KSFO. Sure, there are some things that are PC only, like xOrganizer and Traffic Global currently, with the right system specs, you should be ok. Have Orbx TE Washington, Oregon and NorCal, works pretty good. Maybe 5-10% slower in high density areas, with settings set the same. Still runs 11 pretty well.But being primarily a Mac guy, I got the mid 17 iMac with i7 4.2ghz, Radeon Pro 580 w/ 8gb ram, it works very well with the current 11.40. So I found an Alienware Aurora with the same specs locally the next day, and picked it up. He recommended a custom build, I think it was by X Force PC, but was 3-4 week backlog. And remember, Laminar does primary development on Macs. But he cautioned that Apple didn't have a good video card for running 11. At the time I had a late 2012 iMac, and it would run XP10 decently. When XP11 was about to release 3 years ago, I spoke to Randy at Laminar about the Mac.
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