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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | FSX on the Mac
DVA6823
Captain, B737-800

Joined on December 28 2008
Everett 500 Club
Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

MI USA

1,129 legs, 1,773.3 hours
24 legs, 38.0 hours online
1,050 legs, 1,643.7 hours ACARS
1 legs, 2.1 hours event
 Posted onPost created on October 22 2011 10:00 ET by Michael Winks
Does anyone have feedback on running FSX on a Mac? Can the PC FSX run through Windows on a Mac, and how is the performance / speed?

http://www.apple.com/why-mac/its-compatible/

Michael Winks

Captain, B737-800
DVA8752
Captain, B767-300

Joined on January 01 2010
50 State Club
Triple Century Club

Sedalia, CO

338 legs, 1,236.8 hours
31 legs, 181.3 hours online
37 legs, 232.7 hours ACARS
2 legs, 8.4 hours event
 Posted onPost created on October 22 2011 10:13 ET by Brandon Howell
There are several Mac users here who run Bootcamp and get good performance with FS.


DVA1730
Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on June 17 2004
50 State Club
Online Double Century Club
B737 100 Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

Tucker, GA

329 legs, 842.1 hours
299 legs, 771.2 hours online
261 legs, 640.7 hours ACARS
36 legs, 83.7 hours event
 Posted onPost created on October 22 2011 11:22 ET by Lee Barber
I've run FS9 and FSX on both my Macs through bootcamp. Works just fine as long as you've got the horsepower to run the sim. My Core2 Duo MacBookPro struggles a bit with FSX and advanced addons, but FS9 is just fine. Even my Quad Xeon MacPro stutters occasionally with FSX (but then again, it was built in 2006 and doesn't have much in the way of a graphics card). I ended up fixing up and upgrading a Windows machine I had kicking around (3.4 Phenom II x4 + 4GB ram + GTX260) to run FS, it was a lot cheaper than upgrading one of the Macs. Price/performance you're definitely better off with a dedicated Windows machine to run FSX, but if you just want one box you can definitely do it on a Mac.


DVA5661
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP, COMM

Joined on March 07 2008
50 State Club
Online Triple Century Club
Flying Colonel
Everett Millennium Club
Globetrotter
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Two Million Mile Club

"737 or MD-11, how far you wanna go?"
Melbourne, FL USA

1,928 legs, 4,823.7 hours
304 legs, 639.9 hours online
1,880 legs, 4,735.4 hours ACARS
19 legs, 40.9 hours event
 Posted onPost created on October 22 2011 20:20 ET by Vic DeSantis
Michael, you may want to touch base with Andy Kaufmann on this issue....he is somewhat of a subject matter expert on FS9/FSX and Macs....


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 October 22 2011 21:29 ET by Andrew Kaufmann
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DVA6823
Captain, B737-800

Joined on December 28 2008
Everett 500 Club
Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

MI USA

1,129 legs, 1,773.3 hours
24 legs, 38.0 hours online
1,050 legs, 1,643.7 hours ACARS
1 legs, 2.1 hours event
 Posted onPost created on October 22 2011 22:20 ET by Michael Winks
thanks everyone for the feedback... I had thought maybe the Mac issue had been discussed, but I had not caught the thread. I am leaning toward the PC for FSX and get the Mac for other...

Michael Winks

Captain, B737-800
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 October 23 2011 09:32 ET by Andrew Kaufmann
Mike, there are a bunch of threads on this topic - however, I run FSX and FS9 on a Macbook Pro through bootcamp on a WinXO platform with no issues whatsoever.


DVA4225
Captain, B757-200

Joined on March 21 2007

Pensacola, FL USA

86 legs, 137.6 hours
7 legs, 8.7 hours online
72 legs, 114.6 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on February 25 2012 09:08 ET by Michael Rafferty
Any one running FSX or FS9 on an iMac? RAM and processor speed on your system? Thinking about getting a 27" iMac and running FS through bootcamp. Searching the threads for info, but see very little. Trying to figure out if the 3.1 i5 processor will be enough or if I should spring for the 3.4 i7.

Michael Rafferty

Captain, B757-200
DVA10074
First Officer, B737-800

Joined on August 16 2011
50 State Club
Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

Plymouth, MA

117 legs, 260.8 hours
117 legs, 260.8 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on February 26 2012 23:33 ET by Barrett Forish
I run bootcamp with FSX on Windows XP and I'm happy. My MacBook Pro is a few years old so I can't run it maxed out, but it's fine for me. I plan on getting an iMac in the future so that'll run it better. As far as the i5 vs i7 I'd go with the 27 w/ the i7 if you can afford it. Your also getting a better graphics card. If you have money to spend I'd add the SSD to run fsx on that.

Barrett Forish

First Officer, B737-800
DVA10447
Captain, A320

Joined on January 01 2012

Bethlehem, PA

86 legs, 126.7 hours
70 legs, 103.5 hours online
86 legs, 126.7 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on February 29 2012 11:17 ET by Robert Touchtone
I also run both FSX and FS9 on a MacBook Pro laptop. Runs like a dream. I run Windows7 in Bootcamp. I would highly recommend the MAC for flight sim. The performance is very hard to beat.

Robert Touchtone

Captain, A320
DVA4225
Captain, B757-200

Joined on March 21 2007

Pensacola, FL USA

86 legs, 137.6 hours
7 legs, 8.7 hours online
72 legs, 114.6 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on February 29 2012 13:17 ET by Michael Rafferty
Gents, thanks for the info.

Michael Rafferty

Captain, B757-200
DVA10622
First Officer, B737-800

Joined on March 19 2012

Southeastern United States

4 legs, 7.8 hours
 Posted onPost created on March 24 2012 11:06 ET by Ben Juliano
Michael Winks wrote:

Does anyone have feedback on running FSX on a Mac? Can the PC FSX run through Windows on a Mac, and how is the performance / speed?

http://www.apple.com/why-mac/its-compatible/


FS X is compatible with Mac. The only problem is that you would have to buy a copy of Windows for a hundred bucks and then install FS X. Thats at least $100! I would suggest that someone from the airline
should make our fleet X-Plane compatible. Because some of us don't have the money to spend $100+ on getting FS X to work on a Mac

Cheers

Ben Juliano

First Officer, B737-800

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