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Hi Tom,

This doesn't actually show the specs. but with lots of cores and 8Gb RAM it should have plenty of legs for FS2004 and you shouldn't need to worry about performance even if you're running some sort of Real Weather utility as well.

Alastair
 
I thought the recommendation for any MSFS sim was to turn off the whateveritscalled in the bios as FSX etc cannot make any use of multi core. Though I suppose faster and faster CPU's are probably making that advice redundant or moot at best.
 
If each core is clocked with 4.0+ Ghz and the RAM is fast, you should get your 10 to 12 FPS over NYC. :icon_lol:
 
Believe it or not, that screenie was taken on an Apple machine! It's a MapPro at school, but I suspect it was a special order. From what I can find on Apple's pages, they're normall sold with a maximum of twelve cores. And as far as FS, I really doubt it would run all that well. These machines are intended heavy duty rendering applications and running multiple virtual machines at once. Here's the properties screen...
 
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