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WoW Supported On New Intel Macs

Posted by Zonk on from the now-they're-officially-usable dept.

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."

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  1. Let me just start off by saying by Johnny+Mnemonic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  2. Re:No PPC or x86 Mac client by Psykechan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.