If you want to play games, buy a PC. If you want to get some work done... serious work, get a Mac.
It is not Apple's focus to offer games to the world. It's a saturated market full of everything you can think of. People can play games on their phones, PDAs, TVs... not to mention the huge handheld game device market. When a manufacture wants to sell a PC by showing off it's "muscle", they put a game on the screen and hand everything off to the GPU.
Notice how Processor speed somehow gets pointed to a frame rate on Quake?
Understand that Apple is not interested in competing for a larger gaming audience. To do that, they would have to make a $500 computer with a single purpose in holding a lot of fast ram and providing a slot for a ATI/nVidia card.
Apple provides a work environment to those who want to use it. A Wintel machine is a $500 game console with a word processor and a web browser.
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If you want to play games, buy a PC. If you want to get some work done... serious work, get a Mac. It is not Apple's focus to offer games to the world. It's a saturated market full of everything you can think of. People can play games on their phones, PDAs, TVs... not to mention the huge handheld game device market. When a manufacture wants to sell a PC by showing off it's "muscle", they put a game on the screen and hand everything off to the GPU. Notice how Processor speed somehow gets pointed to a frame rate on Quake? Understand that Apple is not interested in competing for a larger gaming audience. To do that, they would have to make a $500 computer with a single purpose in holding a lot of fast ram and providing a slot for a ATI/nVidia card. Apple provides a work environment to those who want to use it. A Wintel machine is a $500 game console with a word processor and a web browser.