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Why would any windows user not get a Mac? Win win.
Why would any windows user not get a Mac? Win win.
Looks Snappy!
Looks Snappy!
It will be perfected right about the time it’s no longer necessary.
It will be perfected right about the time it’s no longer necessary.
@ breeze–
Because they’re too cheap. That is the one argument I hear over and over from them.
“I can get i7, Blu-Ray, etc, etc, for $600.”
@ breeze–
Because they’re too cheap. That is the one argument I hear over and over from them.
“I can get i7, Blu-Ray, etc, etc, for $600.”
Funny how there’s no snide remark about the plague that is Windows on all these Parallels articles. Reason: they’re an advertiser. Great perspective there!
Funny how there’s no snide remark about the plague that is Windows on all these Parallels articles. Reason: they’re an advertiser. Great perspective there!
@ TheConfuzed1, yup. then they need a new one every two years. lol. Fools
@ TheConfuzed1, yup. then they need a new one every two years. lol. Fools
Warcraft runs just fine on my Mac, and I don’t have any conversion software like Parallels opening up holes in my system for bugs to crawl through. There are, easily, a dozen pieces of software, such as Visio, that require Windows or a conversion such as this. If you need Visio, you are a Network Engineer and you also need a D9 port … oops!
I don’t see a need for this in my life. Most of the games that run on the PC, but not the Mac, are cr@p that fall off the face of the earth into the discount bins almost as soon as they are released. Many of the rest, the ones good enough to spend your money and time on, arrive soon enough on the Mac – though not all of them. If you are really into cr@p games, get a PC to experiment with. Keep it off the Internet as much as possible and life should be good.
Warcraft runs just fine on my Mac, and I don’t have any conversion software like Parallels opening up holes in my system for bugs to crawl through. There are, easily, a dozen pieces of software, such as Visio, that require Windows or a conversion such as this. If you need Visio, you are a Network Engineer and you also need a D9 port … oops!
I don’t see a need for this in my life. Most of the games that run on the PC, but not the Mac, are cr@p that fall off the face of the earth into the discount bins almost as soon as they are released. Many of the rest, the ones good enough to spend your money and time on, arrive soon enough on the Mac – though not all of them. If you are really into cr@p games, get a PC to experiment with. Keep it off the Internet as much as possible and life should be good.
TheConfused1:
You get what you pay for.
You would think that people realize that being cheap is ultimately too expensive…
TheConfused1:
You get what you pay for.
You would think that people realize that being cheap is ultimately too expensive…
Did Apple allow unfeathered access to the video card?
Or did Parallels just bypass and used Direct X?
Because I can’t see a Mac using VM software getting better frame rates than a native PC.
3D games are mostly all video card performance related anyway, the CPU’s now with so many cores have plenty of performance for the game engine, only hobbled by the RAM amount and fetching speed of new material off the hard drives. (DOOM 3 anyone?)
If your serious 3D gamer, you know everything about a computer has to be accelerated and only a Mac Pro will do for that.
Of course one can save a ton of money and get a $300 PS3 instead with plenty of people available to play on line
Did Apple allow unfeathered access to the video card?
Or did Parallels just bypass and used Direct X?
Because I can’t see a Mac using VM software getting better frame rates than a native PC.
3D games are mostly all video card performance related anyway, the CPU’s now with so many cores have plenty of performance for the game engine, only hobbled by the RAM amount and fetching speed of new material off the hard drives. (DOOM 3 anyone?)
If your serious 3D gamer, you know everything about a computer has to be accelerated and only a Mac Pro will do for that.
Of course one can save a ton of money and get a $300 PS3 instead with plenty of people available to play on line
Bizzaro:
You “cant see” because you’re so full of shit, your eyes are brown.
Bizzaro:
You “cant see” because you’re so full of shit, your eyes are brown.
Who still plays games on their computer? Get a console for gaming.
Who still plays games on their computer? Get a console for gaming.
Game center gaining traction…
Game center gaining traction…
@yimmie I was wondering that. Computer games are not like console games. Consoles can do more. Although the argument I hear is well I can update my computer more often then the consoles update.
But the games I play you don’t find on a computer. I like my wii. But then I’m not a gamer.
I do wish apple would lower the mb pro prices. And the Mac pro. Right now it’s min 1500 to get into a 15in screen. Which is better then it was but still i think that keeps allot of people from switching.
Mac pro needs a lower entry point. Because it can be expanded you could start off with a basic one for less then 2k and expand as you get money to do so.