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| Thread ID: 79783 | 2007-06-01 06:13:00 | Gaming on a Mac?? (don't laugh too hard) | winmacguy (3367) | PC World Chat |
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| 554967 | 2007-06-01 10:25:00 | Thats the bit I am curious about since I am aware that gaming is CPU intensive hence the continual requirement for overclocking. I will post the review when it comes out. Actually games are really more GFX intensive than CPU intensive, but BF2 uses more than half of a dual core CPU, so should be a good test game... so all this is based on reviews? I use reviews as a guideline untill I see for myself :2cents: Well said Metla esp the fact that mac-owners pay so much for the "joyous experience" of running Mac and the "stylish hardware" only to have to look for a way to start using Windows again and then still have the gall to call Windows/PC owners stupid and tell us what we're missing on. To me, we miss nothing. I fully agree a Mac is a Mac, not a PC, so why run Windows on a Mac? :illogical You know I am NEVER going to buy a Mac because you (winmacguy) have pushed Macs since the day you got here and I am sick of it... |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 554968 | 2007-06-01 10:39:00 | I fully agree a Mac is a Mac, not a PC, so why run Windows on a Mac? :illogical You know I am NEVER going to buy a Mac because you (winmacguy) have pushed Macs since the day you got here and I am sick of it... Running Windows on a Mac is not actually as illogical as it sounds especially if you happen to be a Mac user in a corporate environment like the marketing dept and may have a Windows only ap that you need as part of your job (the admin part maybe since most of the other apps would be cross platform) then it makes things easier. I don't expect you to buy a Mac, TeOR, regardless of what I may say about them. However as more and more applications become platform agnostic and web based, we will start to see more of a platform equilibrium than we have been used to, which means that you could remain on Windows/Linux while 25% of the people around you could be Mac users working of a Sun/Linux/Xserve. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 554969 | 2007-06-02 20:52:00 | Well said Metla esp the fact that mac-owners pay so much for the "joyous experience" of running Mac and the "stylish hardware" only to have to look for a way to start using Windows again and then still have the gall to call Windows/PC owners stupid and tell us what we're missing on. To me, we miss nothing. Well said beeswax. I'll bet there is a Winmacguy on every computer forum aroung the world, planted there by the Mac corporation who have taken clues from MacDonalds and Starbucks on how to dupe people. They probably sell Macs or otherwise get financial gain although some proMac members are just plain garden variety fanatics. With clever marketing they manage to convince some of the people some of the time but trying it with tech savvy forum members the only way to respond is how bob_doe_nz did. |
Morpheus1 (186) | ||
| 554970 | 2007-06-02 21:25:00 | Well said beeswax. I'll bet there is a Winmacguy on every computer forum aroung the world, planted there by the Mac corporation They must have planted one or 2 in the MOE (Ministry of Education). I see the neighbour (school teacher) has been given a Mac for work purposes. Talk about 'an Apple for the teacher' :p |
Myth (110) | ||
| 554971 | 2007-06-02 21:38:00 | Cant you already do it with Transgamings Cider?? Isnt Parallels kinda steep? Near NZD$150? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 554972 | 2007-06-02 21:38:00 | The MOE usually does well in keeping with being a slow stupid bureaucracy but last week I hear they rejected $2.7M worth of MS software. Brilliant. OPenOfficOrb instead? Dont want to hijack this thread -- Myth I was aware teachers got laptops but thought they were all pcs, not Macs. If this continues someone in the MOE will probably be going on a holiday to Hawaii paid by you know who. | Morpheus1 (186) | ||
| 554973 | 2007-06-02 21:59:00 | The MOE usually does well in keeping with being a slow stupid bureaucracy but last week I hear they rejected $2.7M worth of MS software. Brilliant. OPenOfficOrb instead? Dont want to hijack this thread -- Myth I was aware teachers got laptops but thought they were all pcs, not Macs. If this continues someone in the MOE will probably be going on a holiday to Hawaii paid by you know who. Teachers have a choice and can choose either a PC or Mac laptop. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 554974 | 2007-06-02 22:45:00 | Teachers have a choice and can choose either a PC or Mac laptop.If this is the case, I do wonder why the neighbour chose a Mac. He knows nothing of computers :confused: | Myth (110) | ||
| 554975 | 2007-06-02 23:00:00 | Cant you already do it with Transgamings Cider?? Isnt Parallels kinda steep? Near NZD$150? I assume that Transgamings Cider would be a game orientated equivalent of Parallels. I got Parallels because I had read about it and because it is being promoted for Intel Macs. Parallels is around $150 although not having anything else to go on I thought that wasn't too bad. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 554976 | 2007-06-02 23:08:00 | If this is the case, I do wonder why the neighbour chose a Mac. He knows nothing of computers :confused: Maybe that might be why. ;) NZ Macguide run some interesting articles on Macs in NZ education. They did one about the kids at Pt England School in Auckland who have quite a developed education program going involving creating podcasts, live radio broadcasts(with in the school) and a bunch of other journalism and multimedia cprojects all based around OS X and iLife, apparently the ids were making great progress and were very self motivated. Christan School up in Albany is half/half Mac-Windows as is St Cuthberts, St Kents, Mt Roskill Grammar (IT helpdesk ad in yesterdays herald for both platforms) and many other Auckland schools. |
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