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<blockquote data-quote="Pensive Koala" data-source="post: 643841" data-attributes="member: 54515"><p>SubZero, you realize the links you gave are to sites where people <em>rate</em> the video cards? A real comparison would look at the benchmarks.</p><p></p><p>However, the real answer:</p><p>Compared to Windows XP, Macs are pretty bloody bad for gaming. Yes, you can run chess and a few other basic timekillers natively, but any serious games you'll need wine (yay for mooching off Linux, they actually know what they're doing!) for, because Microsoft is willing to pay a fair bit of cash out to make sure games are made exclusively for Windows. Wine does not work anything close to perfectly with most games; however, it's good enough. If you want a gaming platform, Windows XP is still the OS to run, followed at a respectable distance by Linux (after all, the games developed for Linux, like OpenArena and many others, are quite a bit ahead of those developed for the Mac; besides, wine is a lot easier to get working in Linux in the experience of people I know) and then by Macintosh. I'd put Vista just barely ahead of Macintosh; quite a few Windows XP games won't work on it anything close to easily, and it has ridiculous system requirements that will put a strain on most midrange PCs while running newer games.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pensive Koala, post: 643841, member: 54515"] SubZero, you realize the links you gave are to sites where people [i]rate[/i] the video cards? A real comparison would look at the benchmarks. However, the real answer: Compared to Windows XP, Macs are pretty bloody bad for gaming. Yes, you can run chess and a few other basic timekillers natively, but any serious games you'll need wine (yay for mooching off Linux, they actually know what they're doing!) for, because Microsoft is willing to pay a fair bit of cash out to make sure games are made exclusively for Windows. Wine does not work anything close to perfectly with most games; however, it's good enough. If you want a gaming platform, Windows XP is still the OS to run, followed at a respectable distance by Linux (after all, the games developed for Linux, like OpenArena and many others, are quite a bit ahead of those developed for the Mac; besides, wine is a lot easier to get working in Linux in the experience of people I know) and then by Macintosh. I'd put Vista just barely ahead of Macintosh; quite a few Windows XP games won't work on it anything close to easily, and it has ridiculous system requirements that will put a strain on most midrange PCs while running newer games. [/QUOTE]
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