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#408053 - 01/15/09 05:11 PM Re: Windows gaming on Macs? [Re: Acumowchek]
zwei soporific Registered: 06/26/04 Posts: 2479 Loc: Near an iPad	And yes ..they need antivirus. I suggest AVG Free _________________________ zwei • twitter • Roku
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#408056 - 01/15/09 05:53 PM Re: Windows gaming on Macs? [Re: zwei]
Papa In a hot tub with Kate Upton Registered: 08/21/05 Posts: 1493	I would add Spybot to the system also. I use the free version of it and AVG free at work. _________________________ May the (mass times acceleration) be with you.
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#408669 - 01/18/09 10:50 AM Re: Windows gaming on Macs? [Re: Acumowchek]
carp Dino's are Babe magnets Registered: 04/19/02 Posts: 27021 Loc: Hawaii	First I would ask them if they can find those PC games for the Mac , if not then their stuck with Windows again which kinda defeats the purpose of getting a Mac in the first place _________________________
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#408672 - 01/18/09 10:53 AM Re: Windows gaming on Macs? [Re: carp]
John Rougeux Member # -1 Registered: 11/06/08 Posts: 5348 Loc: Louisville, KY	How does it defeat the purpose? There are games available for the PC only if I recall..it has been awhile since I have even looked. And let's say I get one, install Windows on mine to play it, how does that defeat the purpose of me getting an iMac? I would still do everything else on my mac.
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#408673 - 01/18/09 10:56 AM Re: Windows gaming on Macs? [Re: John Rougeux]
carp Dino's are Babe magnets Registered: 04/19/02 Posts: 27021 Loc: Hawaii	Quote: they hate Vista and are fed up with patches. Heres what they said - so putting Vista back on a Mac , defeats the purpose does it not _________________________
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#408674 - 01/18/09 10:58 AM Re: Windows gaming on Macs? [Re: carp]
John Rougeux Member # -1 Registered: 11/06/08 Posts: 5348 Loc: Louisville, KY	Then they should put XP on it instead of Vista.
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#408677 - 01/18/09 11:01 AM Re: Windows gaming on Macs? [Re: John Rougeux]
carp Dino's are Babe magnets Registered: 04/19/02 Posts: 27021 Loc: Hawaii	Well even with XP they still have to keep up with the patches and run anti virus - our IT likes to run 2 anti virus and 1 anti spy , so 3 programs _________________________
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#408682 - 01/18/09 11:10 AM Re: Windows gaming on Macs? [Re: carp]
John Rougeux Member # -1 Registered: 11/06/08 Posts: 5348 Loc: Louisville, KY	Yeah, I agree, windows is a pain, but there are some programs/games that don't run on a Mac, like my work's charting. It's all web-based that only runs in IE7.
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#408703 - 01/18/09 01:28 PM Re: Windows gaming on Macs? [Re: John Rougeux]
Mike ZigMeister Registered: 09/01/01 Posts: 2359 Loc: SW Illinois	Quote: There are games available for the PC only if I recall..it has been awhile since I have even looked. There are thousands more games on the Windows-side! And it seems only the top sellers will eventually make it to the Mac-platform. And that in spite of the gradually increasing market share of the Mac. Also, some game developers (e.g.: EA) indicated that they would release games on the Windows and Mac platform simultaneously. That has happened a few times but is still rare. The best solution -IMHO- to play Windows-only games on the Mac is 'Bootcamp', even though you may be hampered by the crappy video cards in some of them.
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#408890 - 01/19/09 12:32 PM Re: Windows gaming on Macs? [Re: John Rougeux]
carp Dino's are Babe magnets Registered: 04/19/02 Posts: 27021 Loc: Hawaii	Yeah here too our web base work app is PC and IE only witch pissed me off , so I did some digging and found out the company did not want to pay the extra 600 bucks to make the site platform independent . Cheap bastasges _________________________
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