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 Heres a quesiton for you Mac lovers out there |
 Jan 25 2008, 05:34 AM
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Junior Pyrotechnician  Group: Full Members Posts: 32 Joined: 18-November 06 From: Australia Member No.: 1,041  |
Whats a good gaming Mac? I'm thinking of replacing all of my PC's with them and run XP on them.
Anybody have any suggestions out there?? maybe mongo since he has a Mac i think? ahahaha Im sure it would be clutter free too!!! peace out dudes 
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Jan 25 2008, 07:10 AM
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 RCTPyro Founder Group: Admin Posts: 44 Joined: 20-May 06 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 21 |
Hey,
Any iMac should do you good
-------------------- Dean Barnett
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Jan 25 2008, 07:42 AM
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ShowSim 3D Manager Group: Managers Posts: 591 Joined: 19-October 06 From: San Diego Member No.: 900 |
In general you will pay much more for the same specs as you would for a PC for gaming. if you buy a mac worry about how you want to use it, don't just buy something to game on. What else would you use it for besides gaming?
-------------------- ShowSim 3D Community Manager  RCTPyro Extravaganza Judge President and Member C.V.A.D.  |
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Jan 25 2008, 08:01 AM
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Junior Pyrotechnician Group: Full Members Posts: 32 Joined: 18-November 06 From: Australia Member No.: 1,041 |
internet, music, movies, practically everything i guess.
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Jan 25 2008, 08:10 AM
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 :) killll it Group: Full Members Posts: 729 Joined: 18-May 06 From: Manchester, UK Member No.: 6 |
QUOTE Hey, Any iMac should do you good Very correct Dean, they have excellent graphics card, I'd more lean to the higher iMac line to get the extra graphics performance. They have a dual core processor, good graphics card, good amount of memory to run XP on, great size screens too - 20" and a 24"! If you could afford it, and want excellent graphics, I'd go for the iMac 24" second one, its a bit hefty but its got great specs 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme 2GB memory 500GB hard drive1 8x double-layer SuperDrive ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory The reason why I've not recommended a mac pro, is because Windows XP hardly supports quad core correctly, and Vista is a disaster OS, and would drop your FPS really low therefore you may as well have a dual core computer, which XP is quite adequate at handling. I must stress that buying a Mac and using XP, you still get all the viruses, crashes, and the occasional BSoD, but then again, you should be OK because you'd probably be using OS X to browse websites etc. --------------------  |
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Jan 25 2008, 08:59 AM
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 <witty comment> Group: Admin Posts: 3,859 Joined: 18-May 06 From: UK Member No.: 1 |
I have an old iMac 24" (well, it's the model before these new black ones) and it works great with games. I've got XP on a 50gb partition and run pretty much all games from Steam (hl2, css, tf2, gmod etc). My XP screws up often and it will crash after a certain amount of time with a BSoD... cheers Microsoft.
Just don't do what other people do, and literally replace OS X with Windows, because that's retarded. They are expensive, but when you get one you'll find out it's worth every penny - and more. 
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Jan 25 2008, 01:36 PM
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 World Renowned Pyrotechnician Group: Moderation Posts: 2,297 Joined: 19-May 06 From: London- UK Member No.: 12 |
How do you put a Windows XP into the Mac?
--------------------  claudio3:global mod:contact me: claudio@vpyro.com Signal to Noise/Colossal - released: http://files.rctpyro.com/index.php?dir=ilyxr%2F Dance of Fire - Released An Evening with the Masters- RELEASED |
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Jan 25 2008, 02:11 PM
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<witty comment> Group: Admin Posts: 3,859 Joined: 18-May 06 From: UK Member No.: 1 |
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Jan 25 2008, 05:35 PM
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 Private Display Pyrotechnician Group: Pyro-Unleashed Posts: 197 Joined: 19-September 06 From: Costa Rica Member No.: 678 |
Wow, I never though that Mac worked well with Xp, ohhh Im so stupid, I just adquired the Windows Vista (Remember Vista graphics topic), and now I have to install XP on it, instead of buying a Mac...
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Jan 26 2008, 11:07 AM
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RCTPyro Founder Group: Admin Posts: 44 Joined: 20-May 06 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 21 |
Vista is crap!
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Jan 26 2008, 11:40 PM
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:) killll it Group: Full Members Posts: 729 Joined: 18-May 06 From: Manchester, UK Member No.: 6 |
QUOTE Vista is crap! You say it best. -------------------- |
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Jan 27 2008, 12:02 AM
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RCTPyro Founder Group: Admin Posts: 44 Joined: 20-May 06 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 21 |
Its so true - I actually made the I.T. department at work revert my PC to XP.
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Jan 27 2008, 12:56 AM
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:) killll it Group: Full Members Posts: 729 Joined: 18-May 06 From: Manchester, UK Member No.: 6 |
QUOTE Its so true - I actually made the I.T. department at work revert my PC to XP. It is most likely they were planning to do that anyways :-) -------------------- |
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