We're not going to get into the technical side of it because, quite frankly, we don't understand it all. The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) has an extensive hands-on and gallery walkthrough (see below) of the $40 program, and found the software satisfying overall, especially for use with Steam. (You can view a compatibility list here.) There's also a 30-day free trial available.
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Just look at the specs of the Mac and you can tell if it runs the game or not. Same as you would with a PC.
The MacBook and Mac mini have anemic graphics capabilities, but everything else isn't half bad.
Got my graphics card overclocked in XP too. Don't know if theres an app to do that on the OSX side. Apple used to underclock cards in iMacs to get it running cooler and more stable, god knows the fans kick in when I'm playing a game.
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Try another argument, Sluggo.
(I'm not being sarcastic btw I actually have a MBP[seexxxyyy *licks*] )
For example, TF2 runs great with whatever Wine is packaged with Ubuntu 8.04.
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Get the latest 1.0RC2 from winehq.org and you'll receive a LOT of bugfixes.
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That said, if I could reliably play games on linux I'd dump windows like a shot. I have a dual boot system, and in general I much prefer ubuntu... but i end up using XP most of the time because I can't be bothered with continually rebooting into windows to play games.
(though having your firefox profile shared is kinda cool. If I quit now and restart in linux I'll have all the tabs the same and everything. I'm pretty sure I'd even have this half written post... )
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http://www.playonlinux.com/
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I just need to repartition since I haven't been using it that long and when I first tried it out I didn't think I was gonna end up using it permanently. I only have a few gigs of free space and need to cut some from my windows side.
As much as I love my linux systems (which either run window manager-less or use XFCE or KDE), I prefer the reliability and stability of my OSX systems where I know things are just going to work and I don't have to spend three days just overcoming a glitch before carrying on with the actual work I originally intended. That was fine when I was 17 and had plenty of spare time, but I'm 30 now and days wasted to config issues and incompatibilities and glitches are days I could have spent being productive. And I know I'm not alone. Walk through any of out campuses (I work for the company that makes the most popular brand of UNIX derivative). We aren't carrying Thinkpads with linux. We're not carrying machines with Windows XP. We're carrying macs.
The only real negative I have with OSX is that it has a package management system (Fink) that is a little less than optimal (it's certainly no apt). And worse, the default file system is a NON-CASE-SENSITIVE HFS+. Sure, theres' a case-sensitive alternative, but you can't run it as your boot/OS, because a ton of apps croak on case-sensitivity.
For an OS that is heavily used by developers and web designers, you would think there would be a lot more focus on making the environment a lot more linux/unix like which is where many or most developers will end up deploying what they're developing in the first place.
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I also don't understand why projects like Cedega/WINE/etc have to apparently be retooled per-game. What is it that they have to change that otherwise means a game today isn't going to run until they've specifically added code or something for it six months down the road?
Until people can play games on their preferred OS on the same date of release as Windows, it's going to be a hard sell.
Unless after 20 years of hardcore PC gaming, like me, you just give up and take your preferred OS for working on stuff and stick to consoles for your gaming.
*sigh*
I got a Macbook Pro and ive played a few games on it tho i mostly play consoles,i played WoW but got bored of it but now AOC seems way better but its windows only so i was gona setup bootcamp for it,using it directly on mac osx with these aplication (if it runs as good as it would on windows) sounds a lot better,i dont even have to bother with windows.
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