My primary SL computer since I started has been an Apple PowerBook G4. It did okay for me, gamely processing everything it could given a limited amount of RAM and a fairly old video card. With the arrival of 1.10, though, the G4 just wasn’t getting it done any more. Frame rates, especially with flexiprims, averaged somewhere in the neighborhood of 3-5 fps. Lag city.
On Saturday, I bought an Nvidia 7600 GT for my el-cheapo Windows system and all I can say is, “Wowza, why did I wait for so long?” It will be interesting to compare the performance of the $750 Windows desktop vs. my MacBook Pro when I finally order it in the fall.
If the MacBook doesn’t top it, my world will shatter. I use a g5 imac (pre-intel chip) to run SL and, although it is the only program that will randomly crash, it works very nicely. seeing how the Macbooks look, it should run SL beautifully for at least a year until flexi-shapes appear and everyone whips out their massive, physics-enabled baywatch chests.
Pure speculation.
Wowza (another fave word) to that indeed! Glad you got the rabbit enhancement, so to speak, Celebrity.