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gaming question

Oct 4, 2007 2:09PM PDT

Hi I just recently bought a macbook running at 2.15Ghz with intel core 2 duo, I also added 1 GB of ram so im currently a t 1.5GB. Thing is that i found out that the games coming soon such as Battlefield 2042 among others, won't run on a macbook since it is based on intel graphics. I though that maybe if i bought a mac mini i could run the program with both processors, and most important both video cards and get a good performance when running games. Would that be possible?
Thanks in advance

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If I understand this correctly,
Oct 4, 2007 9:47PM PDT

you are suggesting that you are going try to run a game, like Battlefield 2042, using two computers so that you can take advantage of the combined processors and the combined video cards.

Not going to happen.

I don't think there is a way that you can configure the two machines to be playing the same game, from the same code, at exactly the same time and directing half the video output from each machine into a monitor to produce one perfect picture.


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no gaming its ok...losing my files...NOT OK
Oct 4, 2007 11:35PM PDT

man! well thanks anyway for your help...though right now it don't know if im angry at mac for no having cool games for the macbook or because when i turned my macbook on all the configuration was lost, in other words even the images of the documents icons were lost, the dock was still and big (not as i used to have it), and even the desktop pic was changed back to the original blue. Do you know why could this'va happened i mean i still got my applications and photos, etc but im afraid of losing them
I really need help! im afraid of losing my documents!

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You will not lose you documents,
Oct 5, 2007 9:49AM PDT

you have a back up system in place and regularly backup your data. What? You don't! For Shame.

Seriously, now is the time to put together a procedure for backing up your data. Your machine has a CD writer, all the current ones do, so it is easy to drag your stuff to a CD (or 12) and save it.
If you have the superdrive, even better. Copy your stuff to a DVD and feel secure.

Don't bother copying the system or any of the applications that came with it, you have the restore CD.
Any other applications, you should have the install disks for them too.

You don't say if you changed anything before the recent upset, this could be a factor.

You could always get an external Firewire drive and copy stuff to that, it's better than nothing but NOT infallible.

Reset everything to how you had it, back up your stuff, and you should be ok

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