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Why Apple Should Port Games
DanTheMan writes "For every great game there is for Mac OS X, there are at least two for Windows. It's sad, but it's a fact. This article proposes a solution, and it's for Apple to port games. By the way, since the XBox 2 will use the PowerPC G5, it shouldn't be that difficult to port future XBox games to the Power Mac G5 and the iMac, both of which are 64-bit now. Would you buy a Mac if you could play Counterstrike Source and Half-Life 2? What other games are missing from Mac OS X?"
Macs cost to damn much.
Games that suck on consoles: FPS - Need a Keyboard and Mouse RTS - Need a Keyboard and Mouse MMORPG - Need a Keyboard and Mouse Flight Simulators - Need a Keyboard and Flight Stick Now that we've established that the PS2 & XBOX suck for the above, we can revisit the premise. Would I switch if the best of the traditional PC games were ported to MAC in a timely manner ... ummmm No, because Apple hardware is too expensive.
That is an objective statement that is more opinion then anything else.
Is a Mac 'superior' at surfing the Internet? No.
Is a Mac 'superior' at sending/recieving email? No.
Is a Mac 'superior' at performing standard office taks? (Make a spreadsheet, text document and so on.) Again, no.
Those tasks can be perfectly performed on a Windows based PC for much less. Even non-professional and professional photo editing can be performed very adequetely on a Windows Based PC. Sure, you might see some speed increase for some photo editing tasks on a Mac, but from what I have seen, shaving 10 seconds here and there, upwards of a minute here or there, means nothing to *home* users.
All of that, for less then what it costs to do those same tasks on a Mac. Seems to me that the Mac is only truly superior at costing more money.
If I stop playing games on my PC, then I stop using Windows on my PC. When that happens, I am moving to Linux, not MacOSX. Because the Mac hardware still costs more and likely always will cost more then commodity PC Hardware.
If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
How the hell is this troll? What the fuck are you apple-tards thinking? Get your heads out of your asses and face the reality of why 99% of computer users are PC users. PRICE.
to play video games.
Atleast thats what I keep telling myself EVERY TIME I PLAY HALO.
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