Gaming on Macs: Yes we can (?)

[GrizzlerBorno]

If you're fine with the mac OS (my relatives have unfortunately found that from their viewpoint, it is much less intuitive than Windows) then I'd go for it. There will always be options for your games. A bunch of awesome ones I can recall (many indie, but no less awesome)

Killing Floor
Amnesia: Dark Descent
Team Fortress 2
Spiral Knights (no idea how it is, but it's apparently F2P on Steam)
SpaceChem
Portal 2
Left 4 Dead 1+2
Civ 5
Assassin's Creed 2
Trine

and others...

Don't forget

Spoiler: These

yeah I know this is from a decade ago

OT: Wait you have an Xbox and PS3 already? It's....okay. Well, if you have a gaming PC and PS3, you can pretty much cover almost all good games coming out. Exceptions being Halo, and Fable2, I guess. Seriously the Xbox has so few exclusives.

 

[synobal]

You're not really gaming on a Mac you're gaming on Windows if you're using bootcamp because the difference between a Windows PC and a MAC is nothing but the operating system and they shiny white case. Macs use to be a different hardware platform from PCs as different as the Xbox and the PS3 that isn't the case any more. Macs are just really over priced and expensive PCs.

 

[Lilani]

I had assumed that Boot Camp was basically a virtual machine. I no longer think that as the OP pointed out a post or two below mine. Sorry. It appears it's just a partition where you can dual boot.

Ah, I see. Well now you've got it right anyway. Boot camp just splits the drive and gives the other OS it's own slice of the pie on which it can do whatever it wants. The more you know!

 

[Ezahn]

Yeah, a new iMac bootcamping would actually be the equivalent of a giant Windows laptop with Sandy Bridge processor and a great LAPTOP graphic card (6970m)... but stuck on a wonderful but huge and too-high-resolution monitor... yummy still.

 

[Katana314]

You're not really gaming on a Mac you're gaming on Windows if you're using bootcamp because the difference between a Windows PC and a MAC is nothing but the operating system and they shiny white case. Macs use to be a different hardware platform from PCs as different as the Xbox and the PS3 that isn't the case any more. Macs are just really over priced and expensive PCs.

Congratulations, you just gave a con to PCs.

CON: Its users are elitist jerks

Written by an avid PC gamer

 

[synobal]

You're not really gaming on a Mac you're gaming on Windows if you're using bootcamp because the difference between a Windows PC and a MAC is nothing but the operating system and they shiny white case. Macs use to be a different hardware platform from PCs as different as the Xbox and the PS3 that isn't the case any more. Macs are just really over priced and expensive PCs.

Congratulations, you just gave a con to PCs.

CON: Its users are elitist jerks

Written by an avid PC gamer

I didn't say anything that wasn't true. Nor did I say anything that was elitist. I'm just trying to inform him that using windows on a Mac isn't really using a mac because Macs these days are really just the OS and not the hardware itself.

 

[Ezahn]

Well, I don't want to steer the thread towards a bad case of OT, but many Apple models aren't "overpriced" nowadays. iMacs surely aren't, if compared with comparable Windows all-in-one. BTO expansions, on the other way...

 

[Zer_]

You're not really gaming on a Mac you're gaming on Windows if you're using bootcamp because the difference between a Windows PC and a MAC is nothing but the operating system and they shiny white case. Macs use to be a different hardware platform from PCs as different as the Xbox and the PS3 that isn't the case any more. Macs are just really over priced and expensive PCs.

Congratulations, you just gave a con to PCs.

CON: Its users are elitist jerks

Written by an avid PC gamer

He's 100% correct. Absolutely none of the parts in the Mac stand out. The only real insurance you get is that the Mac is made out of high quality parts all the way. The build quality is also solid. Even with that you can save yourself a good chunk of change getting the exact same parts elsewhere.

There are in fact PC parts that are compatible with OSX.

http://www.insanelymac.com/osx86db/ <---

 

[Katana314]

You're not really gaming on a Mac you're gaming on Windows if you're using bootcamp because the difference between a Windows PC and a MAC is nothing but the operating system and they shiny white case. Macs use to be a different hardware platform from PCs as different as the Xbox and the PS3 that isn't the case any more. Macs are just really over priced and expensive PCs.

Congratulations, you just gave a con to PCs.

CON: Its users are elitist jerks

Written by an avid PC gamer

I didn't say anything that wasn't true. Nor did I say anything that was elitist. I'm just trying to inform him that using windows on a Mac isn't really using a mac because Macs these days are really just the OS and not the hardware itself.

Just like buying an Xbox is really buying a PC - but with a heavily modified version of Windows XP Server Edition.

You're missing the point to convince someone in a way that doesn't matter; you're right that macs charge more than they should for the hardware, but some people prefer that operating system, and there's no simple and easy way to put OS X on a computer made by anyone else.

 

[Necator15]

You're not really gaming on a Mac you're gaming on Windows if you're using bootcamp because the difference between a Windows PC and a MAC is nothing but the operating system and they shiny white case. Macs use to be a different hardware platform from PCs as different as the Xbox and the PS3 that isn't the case any more. Macs are just really over priced and expensive PCs.

Congratulations, you just gave a con to PCs.

CON: Its users are elitist jerks

Written by an avid PC gamer

I didn't say anything that wasn't true. Nor did I say anything that was elitist. I'm just trying to inform him that using windows on a Mac isn't really using a mac because Macs these days are really just the OS and not the hardware itself.

You're not really gaming on a Mac you're gaming on Windows if you're using bootcamp because the difference between a Windows PC and a MAC is nothing but the operating system and they shiny white case. Macs use to be a different hardware platform from PCs as different as the Xbox and the PS3 that isn't the case any more. Macs are just really over priced and expensive PCs.

Congratulations, you just gave a con to PCs.

CON: Its users are elitist jerks

Written by an avid PC gamer

He's 100% correct. Absolutely none of the parts in the Mac stands out. The only real insurance you get is that the Mac is made out of high quality parts all the way. Even with that you can save yourself a good chunk of change getting the exact same parts elsewhere.

There are in fact PC parts that are compatible with OSX.

http://www.insanelymac.com/osx86db/ <---

Uhhh, I think he was making a joke. You know the stereotype that Mac users are elitist jerks? He's saying that because there's ultimately no difference that it means that PC users are now elitist jerks.

OT: Probably cheaper to just get a windows machine, especially if you're pretty much just getting it to play games.