Got an Alienware M18x R2...

[ThorhiantheUltimate]

(01-07-2014, 08:07 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote:

(01-07-2014, 01:42 AM)kinkinkijkin Wrote: And, you know that apple has a lot of different computer products, right? They don't just make "macbook" macbooks. Given, the ones suitable for dolphin aren't marketed for what they'd be best used for, and cost a ton, but they don't make a shoddy product. Hell, they'd even be properly considerable to the average user if they weren't expensive and intentionally fragile.

After having to spend half an hour today being shown how good the new top-of-the-range Mac Pro is by a friend, I can tell you with some assurance that even the best system Apple make isn't good for Dolphin. This is largely because of Apple's tendency to prioritise multithreaded performance over single threaded performance, so they use 2 not-hugely-highly-clocked Xeons.

Im guessing your talking about the Older Mac Pro then, since you stated TWO Xeon proccessors. Gonna have to agree with you on that, but weren't those Xeons a bit old compared to the normal Intel CPU's on the market, like Nehalem (Westmere) old? That could explain for the lower performance. The new mac pro that just came out jumps all the to Haswell if I am remembering things properly.