Is A I Mac Good For Games

If there’s one good thing about the relative scarcity of games on the Mac, it’s that we often get the best games when we do get them. Sure, you’ll find a few stinkers, but the fact remains. How the world is changing for Mac gamers. New indie games tend to hit Mac at the same time as everything else thanks to improved engine support, with Humble Bundles seeing major uptakes from.

Silly question. Of course not. Jakedogg14 Not a closed minded statement at all. From a hardware point of view Apple's MBP line is really good for gaming as far as laptops go, the parts in them are good and the video card is pretty awesome (so glad they ditched the x1600, now i need to find some excuse to get the new one of course, rats). Using boot camp you can boot into vista or XP and Boot Camp provides the drivers for all of it (don't use vista but it works on XP) As far as the OS goes, no OSX is not a very good OS to game on but its getting better, I'm always glad that devs like epic and blizzard support the Mac platform, although I would appreciate it if the guys doing porting like Aspyr and Macsoft did better jobs.

But once again you can boot into Windows and play all the games that way so its fine. As far as anti-virus goes I'm just going to say it Norton is rubbish. Go use Avast or AVG and combine it with zone alarm and you have the equivalent at a lower overhead that does just as good a job or if you really do feel like paying go with something like Kapersky or NOD32. EDIT: Its Mac by the way a MAC address is something rather different. Also you do pay a premium for the MaBook Pro compared with a similarly speced windows machine and if you do intend to game right now you do have to factor in the fact that you will have to shell out for another windows licence, but that premium isn't completely unwarranted it does have a couple of nifty features that aren't available elsewhere, the backlit keyboard is kind of cool and the LED screens on the 15' is a really cool feature.

Also Apple's desktop line is bad for gaming, mostly because it doesn't have a middle ground. The iMac line is unexpandable in pretty much any form and so is unsuitable for gaming and the Mac Pro is awesome but umm an 8 core machine which is intended at professionals for gaming, you'd be crazy to buy that. [QUOTE='jakedogg14'] Silly question. Of course not. Lim_ak Not a closed minded statement at all.

From a hardware point of view Apple's MBP line is really good for gaming as far as laptops go, the parts in them are good and the video card is pretty awesome (so glad they ditched the x1600, now i need to find some excuse to get the new one of course, rats). Using boot camp you can boot into vista or XP and Boot Camp provides the drivers for all of it (don't use vista but it works on XP) As far as the OS goes, no OSX is not a very good OS to game on but its getting better, I'm always glad that devs like epic and blizzard support the Mac platform, although I would appreciate it if the guys doing porting like Aspyr and Macsoft did better jobs. But once again you can boot into Windows and play all the games that way so its fine. As far as anti-virus goes I'm just going to say it Norton is rubbish. Go use Avast or AVG and combine it with zone alarm and you have the equivalent at a lower overhead that does just as good a job or if you really do feel like paying go with something like Kapersky or NOD32. Hey Hey a Mac user. Im getting a Macbook Black.

I was going to get a 15' MBP but it is 500 bucks more for a better GPU. So im sticking with theBlack MB. A Mac can be a great system to game on. Just not with Mac OS-X.

Software update for color it 3.0 mac free. You will want to either install XP or Vista. You do NOT need to use anything like Bootcamp or any sort of emulation on a modern Mac. They are Intel X86 cpu's and run XP/Vista as a native OS. If you have a Mac then you want Mac OS-X, so to run multiple OS's you will want a bootloader to select the OS you want at each startup. The real problem is you are going for a notebook. Very few notebooks are built with game power in mind and Mac's are no differnt. The few decent game notebooks dont even stay decent for more than about 18months.

You will have to drop some serious dough on a top of the line powerbook or PC notebook if you want it to stay current enough to play games in a 2+ year period from the date of purchase. It's really all about the money your willing to spend. Just dont let anybody tell you that a Mac isnt worth playing games on, or you have to emulate any current version of Windows. It hasnt been that way for a while now and those are people who dont have a clue as to what they are talking about. Not sure about the anti-virus, but Macs don't get many viruses anyway.