FYIan

Laser pointer taped to cat's head.

@Assmar
Yes, let's pull everything that could possibly offensive to anyone, ever.

Hmm. The PC game gun seems cooler, cheaper, and more practical.

Also, the inventor looks like a classy gentleman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ym0tZSWGMc

@Jerkface Killah

The first one of the swamp is, but the second one of Freeport is not, although there is an in-game screenshot of the same place, viewable at the source link.

What does what Germany is making Google do have to do with the United States? China makes Google do a lot of things, too, but that doesn't mean it would make sense for us to.

Yeah, you can replace parts in the Mac Pros with standard parts, but I don't know how good driver support is.

I still have no idea why your friend would say Macs have 'superior graphics capability' since they use the same parts as Windows PCs. In fact, for the price, I'd argue that Windows PCs have super graphics capability in any situation, but especially in gaming since developers mostly optimize for Windows/DirectX these days.

I find the article itself to be very odd though. Of course newer Macs (since the x86 era) are going to have better specs than older Windows PCs.

@Jack

"Seriously? Do you really think a Mac is just:

* the same thing as a PC [check - same hardware, just less choice and with a higher pricetag]

* running the same OS as Windows [no, but there's no objective evidence you can provide me that OSX is better than Windows]

* but with a different name? [well, technically Macs are also personal computers]

Wow."

Wow, indeed.

@Jack

From the article:
"It's practically the exact same as the Windows version, except there's almost nothing to buy."

You going to flame Engadget for that, too?

The original gameboy was sub-NES. The later gameboys were still sub-NES to maintain compatibility but were closer. The GBA practically was a SNES. The DS practically was a N64.

Unless Nintendo decides to stop reusing shrunken hardware for their handhelds, my feeling is that the 3DS will be closer to a GameCube in power.

@Swagman
I hope you realize that people could play real-time online games on dial-up, which only made it to 56kbps.

As an example, Team Fortress 2 sends out less than 30kBps. 512kbps = 64kBps.

So bandwidth isn't really an issue, but latency might be. I'm not really sure what the latency of a 3G connection is, but again dial-up users got by with their modem adding 100ms to their ping.