Virtual Machine OS X question?

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(03-27-2014, 10:17 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: These days VMWare has a pretty low overhead on everything, but most other things have a massive one.

Also, does your friend absolutely have to use OSX? If he could dual boot into windows or linux Dolphin would run faster and IIRC with fewer bugs.

Well thing is he ain't the most tech savy and if something goes wrong with his mac than it would be a problem since it's also his school laptop anyways I know it will perform great on is mac and well my second question how about the boot camp on the Mac running Windows will that perform the same as if it were a real windows pc?

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(03-27-2014, 09:58 AM)DJBarry004 Wrote: You mean to use Dolphin on the virtual Mac? You wouldn´t see the true performance on it since:

1- Emulating any OS is hugely demanding (depending on how did you set your VM, of course).

2- The "emulated" OS will use the same components (CPU, GPU) your current machine is using; thus it would limit a lot the posibility to -e.g. get full speed on Dolphin- if your machine isn´t pretty powerful.

It´s not that is impossible to do, it just doesn´t give any benefit at all (in this case, give you a solid idea of how Dolphin would perform in Mavericks) I.M.O.

EDIT: But, if what your friend wants to do is to try Dolphin, the official benchmark would be a good start.

Well if it were like that my pc performs almost perfectly with none demanding GameCube and Wii games but I keep getting a bakened error when I get back to my machine I'll look for the log to see if anyone can help