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From: Jim on 14 May 2010 07:29 On 2010-05-14, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > However, I'm still not quite sure what the goal is here. On the > grounds that Windows is traditionally a better games platform than > OSX(Linux) But there's no reason why it should stay that way. > and given that many people already Bootcamp their Macs into > Windows for other reasons (or have Winboxes) then doesn't it make > sense to just run stuff like Steam, on Windows? (Would this sorta I'd be willing to bet that most people who have Intel Macs *don't* have Windows. Making them go out and buy a second OS just to play games that could run just as well under OSX is...sub-optimal. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash.
From: T i m on 14 May 2010 07:29 On Fri, 14 May 2010 12:29:36 +0100, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >On 2010-05-14, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: >> However, I'm still not quite sure what the goal is here. On the >> grounds that Windows is traditionally a better games platform than >> OSX(Linux) > >But there's no reason why it should stay that way. No indeed. > > >> and given that many people already Bootcamp their Macs into >> Windows for other reasons (or have Winboxes) then doesn't it make >> sense to just run stuff like Steam, on Windows? (Would this sorta > >I'd be willing to bet that most people who have Intel Macs *don't* have >Windows. Making them go out and buy a second OS just to play games that >could run just as well under OSX is...sub-optimal. But I would suggested that if that were the case they (probably) wouldn't be wanting to play games either? Cheers, T i m
From: Jim on 14 May 2010 07:35 On 2010-05-14, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: >> >>I'd be willing to bet that most people who have Intel Macs *don't* have >>Windows. Making them go out and buy a second OS just to play games that >>could run just as well under OSX is...sub-optimal. > > But I would suggested that if that were the case they (probably) > wouldn't be wanting to play games either? That seems a rather odd statement. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash.
From: Ian McCall on 14 May 2010 07:33 On 2010-05-14 12:29:27 +0100, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> said: > But I would suggested that if that were the case they (probably) > wouldn't be wanting to play games either? Not so - I'm one who won't dual-boot, but was curious about Portal for instance. I've installed, and also bought Torchlight as I've been watching a friend play for a while and looked interesting. I won't dual-boot though, far too much faff plus I'd need an extra Windows license. Cheers, Ian
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 14 May 2010 07:40
On Fri, 14 May 2010 12:33:44 +0100, Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote: >On 2010-05-14 12:29:27 +0100, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> said: > >> But I would suggested that if that were the case they (probably) >> wouldn't be wanting to play games either? > >Not so - I'm one who won't dual-boot, but was curious about Portal for >instance. I've installed, and also bought Torchlight as I've been >watching a friend play for a while and looked interesting. I won't >dual-boot though, far too much faff plus I'd need an extra Windows >license. And from one who does have a BootCamp Windows install just to play games, I found myself very rarely bothering to do the reboot. Even for Tales of Monkey Island. And this paid off, since that (and other Telltale games, and of course Steam) are now on the Mac. And why didn't I reboot? After all, it only takes a minute.... but actually it doesn't. It's a lot more disruptive than the time taken. As a user, I expect my desktop to stay how I left it - I don't power off, I sleep the computer because I don't want to shut down the things I have going, some of which don't have the "continue where you left off" feature. I understand that the ability to keep a desktop going for months on end is alien to Windows users... Cheers - Jaimie -- "You could say that Apple charges for incremental upgrades while Microsoft charges for excremental ones" -- Daniel James, uk.c.h |