WOW: OS-X vs bootcamp Windows

[HarrySlone]

Hello everyone,
I just got a new C2D macbook pro, and i have a question. I play WOW and now I want to play it on my new notebook. What I am wondering is whether its better to play it on OS-X or play it on windows with bootcamp.
I did a google search and found a few things, the first was

"MacBook Pro
2 GHZ Intel Core Duo
2 GB Memory
Radeon X1600

I'm running WOW at 1440 x 900 with all my graphic settings jacked all the way up
ith these settings under OS X I hovered between 15 and 20 FPS. It was just barley playable but for raids and stuff it droped down to a lower resolution and take off a few of the fancy effects. Now on the same laptop, but running under Windows with the same crazy settings I averaged between 35 and 40 FPS."

From this it seems like the windows (direct x version) is much better.

The other thing I found on the blizzard website is that there is suposed to be a new update with multi-threaded OpenGL version around December. Anyone have any more information about this?

So basicly I am just looking for anyones advice or experiances.
Thanks for any advice anyone could give.

[ieani]

wow if thats true, it looks like ill be playing mine in windows.

[SBleed@mchsi.co]

Yeah I'd stick with windows for WOW.
PCs generally have better performance for games.
Right now it seems like the switch to Intel proccessors is making a lot of people question speed on Macs. Because at the moment PC based software seems to be emulated, not actually 100% supported, so just as with any emulator, it will work, but at a small speed decrease.
My $0.02

[ieani]

Sort of off-topic: how long are the WOW free-trials now?

[bobber205]

2 weeks. Used to be 10 days.

[Nermal]

It should play fine under OS X. Although it may run better under Windows, I certainly wouldn't want to reboot every time I wanted to play.

[TheSith]

It plays fine for me on my C2D MBP 2.33 but I don't have ALL the graphics and stuff turned up. I find that a bit unnecessary. I average about 30-40 FPS with my settings and couldn't be happier.

[defsquad]

It plays fine for me on my C2D MBP 2.33 but I don't have ALL the graphics and stuff turned up. I find that a bit unnecessary. I average about 30-40 FPS with my settings and couldn't be happier.

same here.
i did turn on almost everything, and have everything but terrain distance jacked up all the way and still was hovering around 55fps in undercity by the bank; though that was this morning at an off peak time; and i'm using wireless to play instead of wired connection.

with more conservative settings i averaged 60fps or higher in undercity bank. i just got wow installed and everything updated this morning before work so i didn't have a chance to actually go do anything but stand around and marvel at how good it looked.

[ieani]

2 weeks. Used to be 10 days.

Thanks!