“Apple Computer launched its first salvo in the 64-bit computer war by shipping the new G5 this week… just in time for school. For most of us, purchasing computers for either school or work can be a difficult decision, especially when summer activities have drained our wallets. So, what are Mac gamers going to buy if they can’t afford the lofty G5 price tag? The eMac may just be just the answer,” Raphael Liberatore reports for GameSpy.com in his article, “Gaming on the Apple eMac.”
“Apple historically offers deals during the back to school frenzy, and with all of Apple’s focus on the G5, the eMac now stands out as a good choice for Mac enthusiasts eager to upgrade their systems, but unable to afford the G5. But the question remains: How does the sleek-looking eMac stack up to the rigors of gaming? I took a look inside the eMac to determine if it has the horsepower to keep up with the big boys, or if it’s simply a glorified word processor. The results may surprise you,” Liberatore writes.
Full article here.
fascinating
My eMac can’t handle the latest-generation 3D games very well (like UT2k3), but it does great on everything short of that: UT, Alice, realMYST, Giants, Aliens vs. Predator, Descent 3, Quake III, and anything non-3D. And my eMac doesn’t have as nice a GPU as current models. You get a lot for your money with an eMac. I bet Apple gets smart and sells a headless version before too long.
1 gig emac is a solid buy,but apple is still using lame video chipsets/video cards in its imac/emac and even base powermacs g5.
Well, when you consider that most budget PCs use “integrated graphics”, having a Radeon 7500 with 32MB isn’t too terribly lame.
Headless low-budget G4 macs would be cool (Hmmm, the Cube version 2.0, Yummy!) but Apple COULD make all their desktop computers with upgradeable graphic chips…
Long gone are the days of the original Bondi iMac with Voodoo graphics expansion capabilities…
If only the PowerBooks could have the same, Apple would make a bold statement about not needing to upgrade Computers to play the latest and greatest games or use top-tier 3D applications…
But let’s get real: I don’t think the forthcoming wave of 3D games (DooM 3, Half-Life 2, Halo 2), if ported to the Mac, would run smoothly on anything but a 1.8GHz G5 with an Ati 9800 128MB graphics card, anyway… These games are real performance hogs, but produce near-cinema quality real-time 3D imagery…
Apple could bundle a Playstation 2 with all their desktop Macs, no?
I’ll resort to playing QuakeGL on my Pismo…
Yeah, but imagine seeing Half-Life 2 on a dual G5 with the Radeon 9800… it would signal the mac as THE gamers rig and shift many unit IMO. Steve and Co could do a LOT worse than to get down to valve with a few dual G5’s and get them to port NOW. (after I get mine though, natch!)
John Carmack said that the second-to-latest revison of the 15″ PowerBook G4 was the first portable computer capable of running Doom III well. Obviously an even newer–and desktop-based–video board would be better still. But nonetheless his comment suggests to me that there are more Macs than just G5s that will run the newest games.
Jonesy: “Yeah, but imagine seeing Half-Life 2 on a dual G5 with the Radeon 9800… it would signal the mac as THE gamers rig and shift many unit IMO”
Quite.
I imagine the time Half Life for Mac ships (still vapour on PCs…) which would be at last a year, a dual 2GHz G5 w/Ati 9800 will cost a lot less!
If the G5 sells as good as I hope, the production costs will plummet, and I guess at least Mono 2GHz G5 Macintoshes will cost around 1899.-, given the price slashing policy we’ve seen from Apple these last years…
I bought my Pismo G3 400 3 years ago for 3’685$ (in a guesstimate conversion from Swiss francs to US dollars) i.e. 3’260$ plus 425$ for a 256MB RAM module, damn! was memory expensive at that time! Nowadays that kind of money buys you a 17 inch PowerBook, an additional 512RAM module, an iSight, an optical USB mouse, a pack of recordable DVD-Rs AND a handful of games…
More for less, it’s time-related, dude!
By the by, I wonder at what prices the next generation of PowerBooks and iBooks will be sold… time is sweet!
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