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<blockquote data-quote="MrT-Man" data-source="post: 579997" data-attributes="member: 46749"><p>The guy wasn't saying that Apple should build a dedicated gaming rig. I think he has a bit of a legitimate point. Follow my argument --</p><p></p><p>- Gaming IS a big market (certainly not THE biggest market, not by a long stretch, but it's not insignificant)</p><p>- Most of Apple's focus is the consumer market</p><p>- There are likely SOME (perhaps many) consumers that take their gaming seriously, and might let something like video capability sway their decision, as far as Mac vs PC. </p><p></p><p>But here's the thing, it's not like Mac have *no* gaming capability. They have enough to satisfy most gamers, I would think, maybe not those at the super high-end. </p><p></p><p>I think it's partly a question of tradeoffs. Part of Apple's thing is to have a very simplified product line (not a lot of models, SKUs), & also elegant design. Taking the iMacs for example, if Apple were to stick in a better graphics chip, the computer would have to cost more, and it might need a bigger case to allow for the ventilation of the extra heat. So they probably do the math and figure that it's worth giving up some of the hardcore gamers in exchange for a lower-priced, sleeker computer. If they were some other computer company, they might also offer a fatter more expensive model with a heavy duty GPU. But they're Apple, so they don't.</p><p></p><p>Turning to the Mac Pro, they've got the 8800 GT now and that should be plenty for most people -- even 85% of gamers. Is it worth the added cost/effort of having SLI support or whatever for the extra 15% of the market? Maybe not. The thing is that a lot of the super high-end gamers also like to heavily customize their PCs and tweak things (overclocking, getting funky looking cases with LED-lit fans, all that crap) -- people like that might never buy a Mac in their first place since it doesn't lend itself to that type of tweaking.</p><p></p><p>I think historically they figured there were bigger fish to fry than the gaming market, and now that they're running on Intel, the simple fact that you can use boot camp or Parallels is good enough for a lot of gamers anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrT-Man, post: 579997, member: 46749"] The guy wasn't saying that Apple should build a dedicated gaming rig. I think he has a bit of a legitimate point. Follow my argument -- - Gaming IS a big market (certainly not THE biggest market, not by a long stretch, but it's not insignificant) - Most of Apple's focus is the consumer market - There are likely SOME (perhaps many) consumers that take their gaming seriously, and might let something like video capability sway their decision, as far as Mac vs PC. But here's the thing, it's not like Mac have *no* gaming capability. They have enough to satisfy most gamers, I would think, maybe not those at the super high-end. I think it's partly a question of tradeoffs. Part of Apple's thing is to have a very simplified product line (not a lot of models, SKUs), & also elegant design. Taking the iMacs for example, if Apple were to stick in a better graphics chip, the computer would have to cost more, and it might need a bigger case to allow for the ventilation of the extra heat. So they probably do the math and figure that it's worth giving up some of the hardcore gamers in exchange for a lower-priced, sleeker computer. If they were some other computer company, they might also offer a fatter more expensive model with a heavy duty GPU. But they're Apple, so they don't. Turning to the Mac Pro, they've got the 8800 GT now and that should be plenty for most people -- even 85% of gamers. Is it worth the added cost/effort of having SLI support or whatever for the extra 15% of the market? Maybe not. The thing is that a lot of the super high-end gamers also like to heavily customize their PCs and tweak things (overclocking, getting funky looking cases with LED-lit fans, all that crap) -- people like that might never buy a Mac in their first place since it doesn't lend itself to that type of tweaking. I think historically they figured there were bigger fish to fry than the gaming market, and now that they're running on Intel, the simple fact that you can use boot camp or Parallels is good enough for a lot of gamers anyway. [/QUOTE]
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