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BananaNutBread
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« on: March 18, 2003, 01:44:22 PM »
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how the never Macs hold up as folding clients running OS X? I'm wondering if the folding client has been optimized for their "Altivec" SIMD unit and how it compares performance wise.

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BananaNutBread
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« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2003, 01:44:22 PM »
Macs as folding clients
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wytco0
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« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2003, 03:49:20 AM »
Bananaetc. I have a single Imac G4 800 that I run the OSX client on, its pretty slow but it all helps. Sorry I dont know anything about the technical issues you mention. Its slower than my AMD 1.2 machines at folding though. My summary is that its not a good folding machine but its a nice 'digital hub'.
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« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2003, 04:20:41 AM »
wytco0,

Have you tried to run a Windows or Linux simulator on it? Would it make any difference?
Or is it only usefull when you don't have OSX?
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wytco0
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« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2003, 06:17:23 AM »
HI Crazy, I havnt tried that but I mainly use the Mac for video. photos and music, folding is on there to give me a few extra points every now and then. I am not to bothered about it being a good folding machine or not. In general emulators tend to be slower so I would be surprised if it using one would give better foding performance.
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