Why game on a mac?
22/09/2009
I have a mac pro which ive bough in 2006 and to this day it still is the best computer ive seen amongst my friends.
Now to be fair ive scrounged quite a bit and shred sweat and tears for it to get to its current position. Im somewhat of a hybrid. Im a gamer and a programmer. Also I take photography and sculpt as hobbies. Now that in perspective i still recommend the mac over the pc. why? because it just works. Dont get me wrong im not a mac-fan boy. I used to be let me be clear on that, until my x1900, after 1.5 years has gotten me into soooo many hate-screams. It fails you see, it fails on an epic proportion, its weakness: overheat and poor conductors. I agree with you that the upgrades apple provides are WAYYYYYY over the top for consumers. But there is an alternative. I currently have a Sapphire Ati 4890 1 Gig flashed working in my mac and 5GB of ram. It has been chosen as one of the best G.C. of 2009-2010 with its speed + heat dissapation and the memory…well its just memory. I concur with this as it has revived my dying mac. Now im gaming at everything full with direct-x 10 on my vista partition. (yeah i got vista…weird right?)
But see; with Snow Leopard the mac has pushed the industry to the 64-bit age, and wanting to use dX10 leaves you with only 1 option. Vista. Sure theres Win 7 but as ive learned from many PC software/hardware companies its better to buy a product after its first price-cut. Thats when the forums are full of answers rather than unanswered ones. I even got a new BENQ monitor for 200$ (2nd hand) and am going to enjoy doing my daily routines and hobbies and (a little)games on the mac side where-as when im going for tournaments & sponsorships; windows side. The mac doesnt slow down as rapidly as a pc would. Thats the main buy point for me. my old pc’s are now useless thanks to hardware + software incompatabilities and other such things. A common pc is good for, what? 4…maybe 5 years tops? the macbook i bought my mom still works as it was since day 1. And thanks to its user friendliness no mom-nag. In conclusion there are other alternatives to using a mac. You can go ALL-APPLE which will cost you much but will give you 0 trouble or you can go hybrid which will give you trouble at first. but after a while itll all be OK.
I am sure many of you will be bashing me and for your part you are right. However ive heard someone say a really really funny / true thing the other day.
im a Pc until i can afford a Mac.
i lol’d to this. Because its true. Macs are expensive. but once you go mac there is no turning back.
Like i said; it just works. You just got to bend it to your will thats all.
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