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Going To Boot Camp

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sir-yes-sir dept.

An anonymous reader writes "PC World has first impressions of what it's like to run Windows with Boot Camp, the recently announced official dual-boot software for the Intel Macs." From the article: "Back in Windows, I got right down to business and installed a few games to put the graphics and sound support to the test. The quick and dirty verdict on performance? Most impressive. Doom 3 and Far Cry both ran smoothly with high-end graphics options turned on. In both cases, I had to tweak visual settings manually, since the games automatically set themselves to very low settings. Far Cry, for example, autodetected very low settings, but it ran without a hitch when I bumped the resolution up to 1280 by 720, with all visual quality options set to 'High.'"

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  1. Here is what we "whiners" trying to say by Ilgaz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pasting a "download site" commentary by a user (not me) and will say one thing

    "(1 of 2 users found this comment useful)
    rollm
    Holy shite!!!!, I went and downloaded America's Army. Played a game online. Jacked up the video settings to highest possible in the preferences, world, detail, etc. Smooth as a baby's ass-I have NEVER seen graphics like this in a game on a Mac, ever. Going to go out and buy me an external drive for this mac just for games- I am totally blown away! Un-Freakin Believable!! All you Whiners saying that this is bad, no development, etc. (this makes Apple and OSX a REAL player now) do not get it. I do not have to wait for Mac games to catch up-been waiting for over 20 years now. Finally can the superior hardware, dual core MacBook Pro, 2Ghz, 256 vram, etc. Games on my mac, what a concept. Figure using XP as a gaming tool is worth all the complaints. Using OSX to do everything else I want to use a computer for completes the balance. All I can say is WOW. I can finally play the games I have wanted to. Woo Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

    MY NOTE: Americas Army has OS X binary which runs on G4/G5 and using OS X technologies to the limit such as Core Audio 5.1 sound.

    I rest my case Slashdot. Also it is a pity to be forced to post with "karma" since you know the real zealots,fanatics.