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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler \| PC Support \| 21.5'' iMac
DVA4501 Captain, B737-800 Joined on November 28 2002 Century Club DVA Ten-Year Anniversary Southeastern United States 115 legs, 192.3 hours 88 legs, 153.4 hours online 112 legs, 187.0 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on March 22 2010 17:03 ET by Adam Clawson
	Just curious if anyone out there has used the new 21.5'' iMac with the ATI 4670 card with either FS9 or FSX via bootcamp. I know several of you have macbooks with similar setups, but I might find myself with this model iMac soon, and thought I'd see if anyone had much luck with it. A previous poster mentioned having some success with the base model, so I figure the upgraded model would fair a bit better overall, but the idea of running FSX on a 256mb card has me skeptical. Yes, I know, a PC would get me much better flightsim-able hardware, but I'm just curious about the bootcamp + Flight sim setup. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
DVA3931 Senior Captain, L-1011-100 OLP, COMM Joined on January 19 2007 50 State Club Tri-Jet Triumph Million Mile Club Online Quadruple Century Club Flying Colonel Globetrotter Burbank 500 Club Eurocap Club DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary "De oppresso liber" Surry, ME 1,882 legs, 3,806.7 hours 478 legs, 767.8 hours online 1,107 legs, 1,674.5 hours ACARS 55 legs, 114.8 hours event 195 legs dispatched, 134.4 hours	Posted onPost created on March 22 2010 18:26 ET by Andrew Kaufmann
	My dad has one (granted he is 71 years old), and I installed FSX with REX, ASX, and other programs under bootcamp and Windows 7 and it runs fine. I also own a MBP and run FSX and FS9 on the BC partition and runs fine as well - on Win XP Pro.
DVA4501 Captain, B737-800 Joined on November 28 2002 Century Club DVA Ten-Year Anniversary Southeastern United States 115 legs, 192.3 hours 88 legs, 153.4 hours online 112 legs, 187.0 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on March 23 2010 01:23 ET by Adam Clawson
	Good to know. Thanks for the info. I think the iMac is the best option for me. I know it's not the most flight sim equipped rig, but if it'll still do a decent job, then it's probably the best option for me.
DVA4501 Captain, B737-800 Joined on November 28 2002 Century Club DVA Ten-Year Anniversary Southeastern United States 115 legs, 192.3 hours 88 legs, 153.4 hours online 112 legs, 187.0 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on April 07 2010 10:55 ET by Adam Clawson
	Update: Bought my 21.5'' imac- with the ATI 4670 card. Installed XP and FSX via Bootcamp last night. Haven't had much time to test it out- but first impressions are GREAT! Installation was a breeze once I had the correct copy of windows. (Anyone considering this must have copy of Windows XP SP2 or later) Frame rates were locked at default, and I had room to crank the scenery a bit. I still need to install the service packs for FS, and do some tweaking, but overall- I'm amazed at the possibility to have a MAC AND FSX all in one. I definitely recommend it to anyone who's considering a similar situation.

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