On Jul 10, 10:17 am, Kit <kitz...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <1184084559.790240.188...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>
> <duffytwe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Any ideas why my brand new Macbook, 2.0 Ghz, 1Gig RAM, plays Rise of
> > Nations slower than my mother-in-law's 1.66 Ghz Mac Mini? Her
> > computer has 1 Gig RAM too, but in all other respects should be
> > slower, or certainly no faster, right? Yet RON freezes during big
> > battles on the Macbook, while playing flawlessly on the Mini. What's
> > the deal?
> > --Duffy Tweedy
>
> Maybe because on your Intel Mac RON has to run under Rosetta, which
> (IIUC) is a sort of emulator that allows PPC code to work on an Intel
> processor. Is there not a Universal binary version of RON?
>
> Kit
That's what I casually put it down to, until I remembered that the
Mini is Intel also. Intel Core Duo. Versus the MB which is Intel
Core 2 Duo, which is supposed to be inherently faster due to its
architecture, not to mention that the latter has a much higher clock
speed. That's when I got puzzled.
--Duffy
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