Is crossover games for mac good?

[Big D Duchovny]

[QUOTE=Pandamobile;30969275]So you'd rather spend thousands on a Macbook?[/QUOTE]

Mac Pro.

[DaveP]

You may have better luck asking on the MacRumours forum or similar, I imagine they have more experience with macs than is apparent here

[url]http://forums.macrumors.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1[/url]

[cryticfarm]

more bias though

[Big D Duchovny]

[QUOTE=DaveP;30969377]You may have better luck asking on the MacRumours forum or similar, I imagine they have more experience with macs than is apparent here

[url]http://forums.macrumors.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1[/url][/QUOTE]

Probably, but you'll probably get 200% more biased responses, too. If OP wants to game, and he wants a mac aswell, I recommend he gets maybe an iMac, and a gaming rig. Afaik you can use the iMac's screen as, well, a screen, and he won't have to fuck around with hackintosh either. For a person with lods emone and reluctance of having a hassle with something, that's probably the best solution.

[cueballv2themax]

[QUOTE=cryticfarm;30969437]more bias though[/QUOTE]

and here isn't?

[David Tennant]

[QUOTE=cueballv2themax;30969804]and here isn't?[/QUOTE]

I'd say facepunch are bias towards [i]intelligence[/i], plenty of people on facepunch have mac's.

[Map in a box]

And I'm sure that a majority of those people don't realize that they seriously overpaid.

[Big D Duchovny]

[QUOTE=cueballv2themax;30969804]and here isn't?[/QUOTE]

Hey, I don't see many people being overly biased in the H&S. Sure, in fast threads there's the occasional "mac is gay", but overall, there's not much. We're not telling not to get a Mac (atleast I'm not), just that he shouldn't buy it thinking that he's gonna game on it.

[sambooo]

Get a bro to choose the parts and build for you.

Buy him pizza or suck his junk as payment (no eye contact, that would be gay.)

[chrishind10]

[QUOTE=Austin2;30968592]My budget is 3000 Bucks.

[editline]7th July 2011[/editline]

Also, inb4 Fatal-Error[/QUOTE]

That would be my alt, technicaly I'm already here.

[ifauxv2]

[QUOTE=chrishind10;30971531]That would be my alt, technicaly I'm already here.[/QUOTE]
That explains so much.

[Dr Egg]

[QUOTE=chrishind10;30971531]That would be my alt, technicaly I'm already here.[/QUOTE]

It's good to know being on an alt account hasn't stopped your endless flow of absolute drivel from your keyboard

[Big D Duchovny]

[QUOTE=Dr Egg;30972437]It's good to know being on an alt account hasn't stopped your endless flow of absolute drivel from your keyboard[/QUOTE]

And you don't even need to be on an alt!

[sp]Nahh, you cool[/sp]

[chrishind10]

Deal with it.

[editline]7th July 2011[/editline]

If you must know why I'm on an Alt, I had to reset my password on this account back when the password reset function was fucked, so I just went and made a new account untill it was fixed.

[ADT]

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;30969458]Probably, but you'll probably get 200% more biased responses, too. If OP wants to game, and he wants a mac aswell, I recommend he gets maybe an iMac, and a gaming rig. Afaik you can use the iMac's screen as, well, a screen, and he won't have to fuck around with hackintosh either. For a person with lods emone and reluctance of having a hassle with something, that's probably the best solution.[/QUOTE]

Don't Macbooks 2011 have a better and more futureproof hardware (Sandy Bridge/Radeon 6000M Series) compared to the actual iMac?

[Big D Duchovny]

[QUOTE=ADT;30973160]Doesn't Macbooks 2011 have a better and more futureproof hardware (Sandy Bridge/Radeon 6000M Series) compared to the actual iMac?[/QUOTE]

Apple's website doesn't seem to be straight with whether it's SB or the original, but as far as I remember, it's SB. They've got 6***M GPUs, too.

[Austin2]

I'm just going to get the mac, If wine and crossover fuck up, I'll just pop in my 40 GB spare drive.

[cueballv2themax]

[QUOTE=Austin2;30974217]I'm just going to get the mac, If wine and crossover fuck up, I'll just pop in my 40 GB spare drive.[/QUOTE]

Or just partition the 1tb?

[Austin2]

That too.

[editline]7th July 2011[/editline]

Stupid me...... I forgot the HDD size...

[editline]7th July 2011[/editline]

Also, Post fuck up.

[ADT]

[QUOTE=Austin2;30974217]I'm just going to get the mac, If wine and crossover fuck up, I'll just pop in my 40 GB spare drive.[/QUOTE]

Or just buy a decent pre-built PC instead.

[editline]8th July 2011[/editline]

Or buy PC parts and find someone or a store, in your town, that can build your PC

[chrishind10]

It looks like he has made his decision.

[Austin2]

I can't do that cause my town sucks.

[chrishind10]

[QUOTE=Austin2;30987523]I can't do that cause my town sucks.[/QUOTE]

Do you do much video/image editing or CAD?

[Austin2]

Nah.

[DaveP]

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;30969458]Probably, but you'll probably get 200% more biased responses, too. If OP wants to game, and he wants a mac aswell, I recommend he gets maybe an iMac, and a gaming rig. Afaik you can use the iMac's screen as, well, a screen, and he won't have to fuck around with hackintosh either. For a person with lods emone and reluctance of having a hassle with something, that's probably the best solution.[/QUOTE]

I don't see how one can have a biased response when it's a fairly straightforward measurable question; there's only so many ways you can say "this game works" or "this game doesn't".. bias doesn't apply to every situation

It's a matter of experience rather than opinion. He didn't ask whether a Mac is better than a PC for gaming, he asked whether a mac can play games using a parallels/crossover-alike.. how can you bias that?

[[EG] Pepper]

Why on earth would you run games in parallels?

It's like an emulator; some games work, some run not very well and others fucksplode

And installing windows on the mac defeats the purpose of owning a mac.

Just build a desktop

Make a thread saying what country you're in, your budget and what you are going to use it for

Building it is like a really easy puzzle.

[chrishind10]

[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;30991150']defeats the purpose of owning a mac.[/QUOTE]

What purpose?

[cueballv2themax]

[QUOTE=chrishind10;30991504]What purpose?[/QUOTE]

let's start a stupid flame war then

[ADT]

[QUOTE=chrishind10;30991504]What purpose?[/QUOTE]

To buy an overpriced pile of hardware

[culexor]

[QUOTE=Juggernog;30966241]The fact alone that it is £2000 for [B]sub-par[/B] hardware is absolutely ridiculous.[/QUOTE]

I'm gonna have to disagree with you there. It's absurdly overpriced, but the hardware is nowhere near sub-par. Just because that stuff is a year old, it doesn't mean it isn't good.

Also, is there anything wrong with boot camp? (genuine question) Is the functionality any worse that that of a 'native' Windows machine? A friend of mine used boot camp on his Mac and it seemed to play games just fine, but I didn't get to use it personally.