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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. Saw it at MacWorld by jcr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Rob from Blizzard was there, manning the little WoW booth in the Apple Design Awards winner's area. He had WoW running on one of the new iMacs, and it looked awfully smooth to me. I didn't ask him what kind of frame rates he was actually seeing, though.

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  2. Re:I can see it now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    i knew penny arcade had pull in the video game world, but geez, i didn't think they could get a company to port a game just by asking if it can run on the new macs

  3. Re:Waste Of Time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well,

    I can state with confidence that this is not the case (re money changing hands for a PR stunt). Blizzard is supporting Intel Mac with WoW because our Mac players want it.

    In fact, at the start of Macworld we had the Intel binary handy but no hardware to show it on, we had a G5 tower in the booth. After some discussions with Apple staff here and there, we were able to arrange the Intel demo over by the gaming area. It worked out very well and the vast majority of players that subsequently test drove it, were highly satisfied with the performance and stability shown on the new iMac.

    We started working on WoW for Intel Mac at the time of the WWDC announcement in June 2005, in order to be prepared for the new hardware's inevitable arrival. The upcoming 1.9.3 patch will contain the first end user shipment of that work in the form of the new universal-binary executable.

  4. Linux support? by StonedRat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So, if WoW runs on a unix system on an intel cpu, how much work would it be to get it running on linux?

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