#408669 - 01/18/0910:50 AMRe: Windows gaming on Macs?
[Re: Acumowchek]
carp
Dino's are Babe magnets
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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
#408672 - 01/18/0910:53 AMRe: Windows gaming on Macs?
[Re: carp]
John Rougeux Member # -1
Registered: 11/06/08
Posts: 5427
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.
#408682 - 01/18/0911:10 AMRe: Windows gaming on Macs?
[Re: carp]
John Rougeux Member # -1
Registered: 11/06/08
Posts: 5427
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.
#408703 - 01/18/0901:28 PMRe: Windows gaming on Macs?
[Re: John Rougeux]
Mike ZigMeister
Registered: 09/01/01
Posts: 2362
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.
#408890 - 01/19/0912:32 PMRe: 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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