Macs for gaming. Fixed?/ Tech advice.

[wrecker77]

http://www.winehq.org/
Just read the top of the page.
Yes, "Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X."

I'm not sure if your school would be happy with your tinkering with the console, but yeah, Mac gaming is very possible. I do it.
Just search in the bar on the upper-right of the main page for any PC game. If its silver or better, it'll be just fine.
There is the occasional error that prevents emulation, but the only recent titles I can think of that are significantly hampered are Resident Evil 5 and Arkham Asylum- both of which are available on consoles.

So yeah, if you put this on a modern Mac, you could play most all PC games.
I don't understand why people don't understand that this exists; compiling your own version of Wine is free, or you can buy Crossover for $60 all packaged up.

That sounds too good to be true. Kind of looks like a home for viruses. Wouldn't changing operating systems make your computer very vulnerable?

 

[Erana]

http://www.winehq.org/
Just read the top of the page.
Yes, "Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X."

I'm not sure if your school would be happy with your tinkering with the console, but yeah, Mac gaming is very possible. I do it.
Just search in the bar on the upper-right of the main page for any PC game. If its silver or better, it'll be just fine.
There is the occasional error that prevents emulation, but the only recent titles I can think of that are significantly hampered are Resident Evil 5 and Arkham Asylum- both of which are available on consoles.

So yeah, if you put this on a modern Mac, you could play most all PC games.
I don't understand why people don't understand that this exists; compiling your own version of Wine is free, or you can buy Crossover for $60 all packaged up.

That sounds too good to be true. Kind of looks like a home for viruses. Wouldn't changing operating systems make your computer very vulnerable?

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I have a mac. I've been using Wine for well over half a year, with no problems. It doesn't rewrite your operating system, and doesn't run all the time as some sort of weird, lurking what-not of a program. You run your programs through Wine, which itself is through X11. Kill X11, turn off the program running through Wine. And unless there's a performance-effecting bug, (which have in all liklihood have been already documented on WineHQ) any difference in performance between your machine and a hardware-equivelent PC is unnoticeable.

And what do you mean, Vulnerable? Vulnerable to what?
This was originally written by the same kinds of people who made linux- geeks who love to make their incredible code free and open-source. The only real danger with Wine on Mac is if someone utterly clueless entered "rm -rf /" into the terminal, which can happen on a mac without Wine ever being involved.

P.S.
DO NOT PUT "rm -rf /" INTO YOUR TERMINAL

 

[cerebus23]

well for windows 7 you get microsoft security essentials for free you just have to download it and it is a good free av, antispam etc. all windows have a rather rudamentry built in firewall but its ok for gaming.

plus there are any number of free av, and firewall for pcs some better than others, if you buy a pre built pc many of those already have security software installed with like a one year license.

i do not know a whole lot about wine but it can run games but it takes time and dunno how streamlined it is nor how resource intensive since i am guessing it has to emulate things like direct x and such to get things to run. but wine is a commonly used thing on macs.

bottom line you will have alot less hoops to jump through with pcs, you just need to update drivers on occasion, run a defrag every now and then, and keep your av etc updated daily or weekly or whatever depending on how much stuff you do online. plus you save money and there is no waiting for wine to support the game you want to get, if they continue to support games since i know one of the devs has complained about wine enabling game piracy on macs.

i mean if you really want a mac none of us will talk you out of it. i finally talked my aunt into going from mac to pc years ago and she still thanks me on occasion. she may not be a gamer but switching to pc has saved her probably a few 1000 dollars over the years.

 

[Erana]

i do not know a whole lot about wine but it can run games but it takes time and dunno how streamlined it is nor how resource intensive since i am guessing it has to emulate things like direct x and such to get things to run.

I understand that you don't like Macs, but voicing negative ideas about something you know nothing about is just slander. You have a reasonable argument, making this absolutely unnecessary.

 

[George Palmer]

I use both. Heres my take.

I run a Mac. I play games. Though it is true that there are a limited amount of games available for the Mac. More seem to be coming though.

I didnt spend even close to $7000. I have a mouse that has 5+ buttons. I can upgrade my Mac to 16+gigs of ram and several TB of hd space if needed. You don't have to buy all the parts through the Apple Store.

Yes Macs do have routers. Not to mention some really nice screens, an insanely fast bus speed, and intel processors. Also in my experience generaly I find OS X to be far less buggy, less crash prone and less susceptible to virus than windows.

Also you can surf the web and your computer wont freak out from all the bs websites trying to install shit in the background or with popups.

Oh and my Mac is almost 4 years old and is running StarCraft2 without any problems at all (Only upgrade I've done is to my hard drive size.(not HD speed).

You wont need to "throw out your mac and spend $7000 every few years".

And if you own an iPad/iPhone/iPod they work extremely well with each other.

"With Windows you spend a ton of time being interrupted by Windows. With OS X you spend a ton of time being interrupted by your games/work". I find this quote to be very very true. Just my experience.