I'm running the early-08 version of this machine, and it plays Half Life nicely under VMWare Fusion - no need to shut down OSX boot into Windows. Gameplay is quick and smooth in 16:10 ratio cinema mode thanks to the high end GeForce card, and Ooooooh, that monitor!!
Having previously only had a PC at home, I can honestly say I've not started up the old PC even once since I took delivery of the Mac, since I've found a good Mac equivalent of every single app I used to use on the PC, and porting my data over was painless.
My two complaints about the machine would be -
1. The Apple RAID card is a pile of shit. I've got 4 x 500G SATAII drives in Raid5 configuration ... the machine frequently bottlenecks on disk access. Am considering rebuilding the machine in mirrored 2x2 configuration to improve parallel disk access, but at the expense of around 500G disk space.
2. ECC memory is unaffordable, even at Crucial. I would be able to reduce the swapping disk access and associated application hangs if I could afford to extend the 2GB that the machine came with.
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I'm running the early-08 version of this machine, and it plays Half Life nicely under VMWare Fusion - no need to shut down OSX boot into Windows. Gameplay is quick and smooth in 16:10 ratio cinema mode thanks to the high end GeForce card, and Ooooooh, that monitor!!
Having previously only had a PC at home, I can honestly say I've not started up the old PC even once since I took delivery of the Mac, since I've found a good Mac equivalent of every single app I used to use on the PC, and porting my data over was painless.
My two complaints about the machine would be -
1. The Apple RAID card is a pile of shit. I've got 4 x 500G SATAII drives in Raid5 configuration ... the machine frequently bottlenecks on disk access. Am considering rebuilding the machine in mirrored 2x2 configuration to improve parallel disk access, but at the expense of around 500G disk space.
2. ECC memory is unaffordable, even at Crucial. I would be able to reduce the swapping disk access and associated application hangs if I could afford to extend the 2GB that the machine came with.