There's a difference between being able to play modern games and playing modern games well.
I have an 8600M GS, a weaker card than the GT by a good margin, in my Asus laptop...it plays Crysis (not that well, but playable at medium-low settings), Tabula Rasa actually works great, Team Fortress 2 runs smooth on medium settings (all this at 1680x1050). Obviously my 8800GTX in my gaming desktop outperforms these considerably, but when I'm 7,000 miles away from it in some stinkhole of a hotel in the Philippines, I'll take what I can get. I greatly prefer the better graphics, but the games are not any less fun because they don't look as good.
The parent was just making a horrible blanket statment about Macs that was misleading and relatively inaccurate. When I worked at CompUSA (you may laugh, I have no regrets) in my college days, when Bootcamp first came out, we sadly realized the 20" iMac was the best gaming PC in the store (x1600 at the time IIRC)...because all the Windows PCs had horrible integrated graphics. I never said Macs were a good gaming platform, nor did I say they were a good value. You'll never catch me owning a Mac, or settling for anything less than a high-end card. I was just simply pointing out that they would work better on modern games than your average off-the-shelf PC. Many of those integrated graphics can't even play half the modern games out there (or if they do, the framerate is unplayable even on low).
I think another important factor is when your kid asks "Why?" don't brush them off or discourage them...answer them why (or at the very least, give them a good explanation why you aren't telling them.
Yes, I have, but selection isn't everything (and the selection is still somewhat laughable).
The other issue is performance. Most games (higher-end ones) that get ported over suffer from performance hits, sometimes as bad as 25%. If you poke around, you'll find plenty of benchmarks comparing games like Unreal Tournament on OSX and then bootcamping into XP on the same hardware, and getting a significant performance boost. Those games were optimized for Windows, and Mac compatibility was just afterthought to squeeze some extra bucks out of the title. And I did say most games...there are exceptions.
I'd be the first to bash a Mac, especially in the realm of gaming, (I actually came here to post something along the lines of "ROFL it's gonna flop!") but you're completely wrong in your statement (with the exception of the Mini + Air). Out of the box, Macs have:
iMac: ATI HD2400, 26000, or nV 8800GS Mac Pro: ATI HD2600XT MacBook: Ok, crap integrated on this one MB Pro: nV 8600GT
Not too bad, especially considering most off-the-shelf Windows PCs have crappy integrated graphics....nV 7150, ATI x1150, Intel X3100, etc...garbage. Even nicer $800+ desktops or so don't usually come with video horsepower (nV 8300 is still shit) unless you buy a gaming PC. Laptops are even worse. There are a plethora of large (15"+) $1500k+ laptops out there that could have good GPUs that don't.
Now if you get into stuff on places like Newegg, yes, you will find a better ratio. But Newegg is not the bulk of the Windows PC industry. (D)Hell, Worst Buy, and Circuit Shity are.
Most people lost the ability to think coherently and deeply long before the Internet. It's just becoming far more apparent now that every idiot can set up a MySpace/Twitter.
Since the Democrats became mindless idiots that think only they know how to raise other people's kids, and the Republicans became too concerned about their stock portfolos to care.
Kind of like how your school district under-funded its English classes?
(I'm not one to bash foreigners trying to learn the language, so if you are, my apologies, your mistakes just look like they were made by a native speaker with poor grammar.)
I realize you're being sarcastic and trying to be funny. While you are essentially correct with the less than 10M figure, the point I am making is not all 10M even have the option to download it on the same day. In fact, it's probably closer to 2 or 3M since I am guessing you are talking about US patch day.
I actually used to pull it off torrent sites, because blizzard's torrent client sucks and downloads at 1/10th of the speed. Filefront it pretty quick, but it doesn't fill my bandwidth like torrents can.
Yes, I'm advertising a (somewhat) popular free porn site, because clearly I somehow make money off of it, despite not poviding a hyperlink with a referral code. I'm clearly not making a joke at the fact the parent poster seems a little more 'excited' than he should. Anonymous Idiot.
What I'm assuming they do, is just put a credit freeze on your credit report so no new lines of credit can be opened (which is a good idea to do yourself if you don't plan on applying for loans or credit cards any time soon).
But the sleazier places that don't check credit reports will still give you credit if it's a valid SSN. And they are easier to litigate against since they didn't check your credit report, and obviously didn't verify a (real) government-issued photo ID.
I would imagine GTA IV would sell millions whether or not he sounds like a douchebag. Now if Tom Cruise acted like a douchebag, should he be entitled to millions? Oh, wait...
Funny you mention that. I was comparing Vista MC versus MythTV for a HTPC I've been considering for a while. Up until this, Vista MC had been the frontrunner due to ease of use (I won't be the only one using it) and 3rd party hardware and plugin support, etc. This just kicked Vista to the back burner for me.
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There's a difference between being able to play modern games and playing modern games well.
I have an 8600M GS, a weaker card than the GT by a good margin, in my Asus laptop...it plays Crysis (not that well, but playable at medium-low settings), Tabula Rasa actually works great, Team Fortress 2 runs smooth on medium settings (all this at 1680x1050). Obviously my 8800GTX in my gaming desktop
outperforms these considerably, but when I'm 7,000 miles away from it in some stinkhole of a hotel in the Philippines, I'll take what I can get. I greatly prefer the better graphics, but the games are not any less fun because they don't look as good.
The parent was just making a horrible blanket statment about Macs that was misleading and relatively inaccurate. When I worked at CompUSA (you may laugh, I have no regrets) in my college days, when Bootcamp first came out, we sadly realized the 20" iMac was the best gaming PC in the store (x1600 at the time IIRC)...because all the Windows PCs had horrible integrated graphics. I never said Macs were a good gaming platform, nor did I say they were a good value. You'll never catch me owning a Mac, or settling for anything less than a high-end card. I was just simply pointing out that they would work better on modern games than your average off-the-shelf PC. Many of those integrated graphics can't even play half the modern games out there (or if they do, the framerate is unplayable even on low).
I think another important factor is when your kid asks "Why?" don't brush them off or discourage them...answer them why (or at the very least, give them a good explanation why you aren't telling them.
Yes, I have, but selection isn't everything (and the selection is still somewhat laughable).
The other issue is performance. Most games (higher-end ones) that get ported over suffer from performance hits, sometimes as bad as 25%. If you poke around, you'll find plenty of benchmarks comparing games like Unreal Tournament on OSX and then bootcamping into XP on the same hardware, and getting a significant performance boost. Those games were optimized for Windows, and Mac compatibility was just afterthought to squeeze some extra bucks out of the title. And I did say most games...there are exceptions.
I'd be the first to bash a Mac, especially in the realm of gaming, (I actually came here to post something along the lines of "ROFL it's gonna flop!") but you're completely wrong in your statement (with the exception of the Mini + Air). Out of the box, Macs have:
iMac: ATI HD2400, 26000, or nV 8800GS
Mac Pro: ATI HD2600XT
MacBook: Ok, crap integrated on this one
MB Pro: nV 8600GT
Not too bad, especially considering most off-the-shelf Windows PCs have crappy integrated graphics....nV 7150, ATI x1150, Intel X3100, etc...garbage. Even nicer $800+ desktops or so don't usually come with video horsepower (nV 8300 is still shit) unless you buy a gaming PC. Laptops are even worse. There are a plethora of large (15"+) $1500k+ laptops out there that could have good GPUs that don't.
Now if you get into stuff on places like Newegg, yes, you will find a better ratio. But Newegg is not the bulk of the Windows PC industry. (D)Hell, Worst Buy, and Circuit Shity are.
Most people lost the ability to think coherently and deeply long before the Internet. It's just becoming far more apparent now that every idiot can set up a MySpace/Twitter.
Since the Democrats became mindless idiots that think only they know how to raise other people's kids, and the Republicans became too concerned about their stock portfolos to care.
Don't forget about the now mutated sharks living in the coolant water growing frickin' laser beams on their heads.
It's making a comeback. Who the hell can think about communist oppression when their feet hurt so bad!
So would that be a Megafoot^2 ?
Kind of like how your school district under-funded its English classes?
(I'm not one to bash foreigners trying to learn the language, so if you are, my apologies, your mistakes just look like they were made by a native speaker with poor grammar.)
You beat me to it. One of the few good features in Vista.
He's busy getting disbarred, and hopefully imprisoned.
I realize you're being sarcastic and trying to be funny. While you are essentially correct with the less than 10M figure, the point I am making is not all 10M even have the option to download it on the same day. In fact, it's probably closer to 2 or 3M since I am guessing you are talking about US patch day.
I actually used to pull it off torrent sites, because blizzard's torrent client sucks and downloads at 1/10th of the speed. Filefront it pretty quick, but it doesn't fill my bandwidth like torrents can.
But not all 10 million get patches on the same day...a lot of localizations, so they all wouldn't download within 24 hours.
Yes, I'm advertising a (somewhat) popular free porn site, because clearly I somehow make money off of it, despite not poviding a hyperlink with a referral code. I'm clearly not making a joke at the fact the parent poster seems a little more 'excited' than he should. Anonymous Idiot.
What I'm assuming they do, is just put a credit freeze on your credit report so no new lines of credit can be opened (which is a good idea to do yourself if you don't plan on applying for loans or credit cards any time soon).
But the sleazier places that don't check credit reports will still give you credit if it's a valid SSN. And they are easier to litigate against since they didn't check your credit report, and obviously didn't verify a (real) government-issued photo ID.
Go to redtube, take a cold shower, then come back, ok?
Destroying things is fun, especially done with unorthodox methods.
And I use Ideal Admin to silent-instll VNC and watch every move you make.
I would imagine GTA IV would sell millions whether or not he sounds like a douchebag. Now if Tom Cruise acted like a douchebag, should he be entitled to millions? Oh, wait...
They only had a 1 ft. ethernet cable left and Wal-Mart was closed?
Funny you mention that. I was comparing Vista MC versus MythTV for a HTPC I've been considering for a while. Up until this, Vista MC had been the frontrunner due to ease of use (I won't be the only one using it) and 3rd party hardware and plugin support, etc. This just kicked Vista to the back burner for me.
...you tried to record American Gladiators.
I've been running IT departments in the Philippines and China for about a year now, and I just turned 25, where is my Slashdot article?