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Article #883Re: I need windows, but don't want it!
From: Paul Rudin
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:55
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:55
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Stan Bischof <stan@newserve.worldbadminton.com> writes: > In comp.os.linux.misc The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c> wrote: >> So, given that the two apps I need are graphics intensive -- Corel draw >> and a flight sim - tell me which is better >> >> An Intel Mac >> Linux. >> >> And should I attempt to run in parallel or just boot bloody windows when >> needed? > > Unless you want to accept sluggish graphics, use Windows for > any Windows-based graphics-intensive apps. > > No emulated environment will give you the graphics performance > of the real thing. For 3d graphics it often depends on the opengl performance of the graphics hardware, so can run just as well under wine as under windows natively. I've run a number of windows 3d games under wine where the frame rate isn't significantly different from that under windows on the same machine.
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