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MacBook for an Economics student [qst: Office for mac]
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<blockquote data-quote="KamileonX" data-source="post: 604160" data-attributes="member: 39554"><p>Sorry for the lateness of my reply...</p><p></p><p>I did not mean to encourage Macs for a dedicated gamer. What I meant to relay is if you were to use a Mac for gaming, something with a discrete graphics card with dedicated graphics memory is required. The new Intel-based macs without dedicated graphics run on the Intel X3100 Graphics chip, which is intergrated, and not powerful enough to run the latest games.</p><p></p><p>If gaming is important to you, you are looking at a Windows machine. Windows has many advantages over Mac to a gamer, DirectX 10 and games selection are the obvious ones.</p><p></p><p>However, if you are really keen on getting a Mac, the best solution for any Mac user who is also a gaming enthusiast is to use Boot Camp to boot Windows, as Boot Camp allows Windows to run natively on the hardware instead of virtualizing the entire OS.</p><p></p><p>I myself am a gamer, and I have a Windows Vista Quad-Core system for all my gaming needs, and a MacBook Pro for everything else. Granted, the game I play most is World of Warcraft, which can run natively on Mac.</p><p></p><p>I personally refuse to put Microsoft products on my Mac. The one exception that I have is I do have Vista on a virtual machine on my Mac for running programs like MS Access and MS Project Professional. But other than that, there is no Microsoft branded products on my Mac.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KamileonX, post: 604160, member: 39554"] Sorry for the lateness of my reply... I did not mean to encourage Macs for a dedicated gamer. What I meant to relay is if you were to use a Mac for gaming, something with a discrete graphics card with dedicated graphics memory is required. The new Intel-based macs without dedicated graphics run on the Intel X3100 Graphics chip, which is intergrated, and not powerful enough to run the latest games. If gaming is important to you, you are looking at a Windows machine. Windows has many advantages over Mac to a gamer, DirectX 10 and games selection are the obvious ones. However, if you are really keen on getting a Mac, the best solution for any Mac user who is also a gaming enthusiast is to use Boot Camp to boot Windows, as Boot Camp allows Windows to run natively on the hardware instead of virtualizing the entire OS. I myself am a gamer, and I have a Windows Vista Quad-Core system for all my gaming needs, and a MacBook Pro for everything else. Granted, the game I play most is World of Warcraft, which can run natively on Mac. I personally refuse to put Microsoft products on my Mac. The one exception that I have is I do have Vista on a virtual machine on my Mac for running programs like MS Access and MS Project Professional. But other than that, there is no Microsoft branded products on my Mac. [/QUOTE]
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