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WoW Supported On New Intel Macs
If you were worried about your Azeroth fix on the new Intel Macs, worry not. Ars Technica reports that World of Warcraft is officially supported on Apple's newest toys. From the article: "What Blizzard did today was pop the cherry on Mac gaming with Intel inside Azeroth. Apple was cool enough to provide a prototype iMac, and Blizzard was cool enough to have been working overtime on the Intel version of Warcraft. WoW for Intel will be publicly available in about three weeks--for free! As if people wouldn't take a Krol Blade to their non-mousing arm in payment for a real FSB for 3D."
As if people wouldn't take a Krol Blade to their non-mousing arm in payment for a real FSB for 3D
Thanks for paying attention, but the G5 FSB kicks, has kicked, and still kicks the Intel FSB ass. The high end G5 sports a 1.25 Ghz bus per CPU; and even the iMac G5 had a 667 Mhz bus. So the only real advancement in this regard is on the lousy bus of the PowerBook. So big deal.
It is nice that WoW has announced for the IntelliMac, but going to Intel isn't going to change everything overnight because the G5 didn't really suck that bad.
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Yeah, feel free to suggest Guild Wars. I'm sure it's the best thing since sliced toast but until they have a Mac client, I can't play the game. I even inquired about it when it launched asking if I purchased the Windows version and if a Mac version came out, would I be entitled to download it. The result was a rather insulting form letter.
WoW is supported on Windows, PPC Mac, and now x86 Mac. Can you guess why WoW has a huge Mac following and GW does not?
I'll give you a moment to think about your answer.
I just resisted the temptation to get very snarky. No applause, please; the warm feeling inside is enough.
Anyway, you're talking about top-of-the-line video cards, cards that are $300 to $500 when they're NOT sold by a company that places a premium on style and raises their prices accordingly. It's also worth noting that the x1600 chipset is going to run cooler than those you mentioned, which is vital for a small all-in-one (even the power supply is in there - no outboard brick) unit.
Anyone who buys an iMac knows that they're not getting a gaming powerhouse. If someone wanted a top-flight gaming PC s/he would buy an x86 system with a serious graphics card or, if a Mac aficionado, a PowerMac - perhaps holding off until the Intel chips get in the latter, on the off-chance that running Windows and getting THAT gaming goodness would be possible.
Yes, because blizzard WANTS TO support all the distributions out there. I bet if there was only one Linux there would be WoW for it. It's not FUD to say that Linux is fractured among two main desktop environments, two major X11 implementations, and more distros than I can count. Mac OS X is supported because there is only one.
Heute die Welt, morgen das Sonnensystem!
At $15 a month to play online, it's anything but 'free'! It's never been clear to me why they don't give away every copy in the first place.