<p>if your worried about compatibility, you can just run XP/Vista on your mac.</p>
<p>Don't run vista. Vista treats you like a criminal. And it's a piece of crap. Stay with XP.</p>
<p>Right-click on a mac = Ctrl-click. </p>
<p>I prefer an actual right-click button myself to ctrl-click, but macs do indeed have such a function.</p>
<p>From what I've read so far it seems that the MAC > Pc. I'd have to say that's pretty accurate because I've use my teacher's MAC and it's as good as a PC without the slowness and crashing.</p>
<p>But, Is it true that gaming for macs is pretty much worthless? I'm a hardcore Counterstrike player and it'll be pretty lame if I can't play it on the mac.</p>
<p>mac all the way!</p>
<p>well, UCLA, are you a gamer? Do you have a lot of programs and things to install in your PC? I hate when people say "It wasn't a problem for me" but they are the people who use their computer to watch movies and surf websites only while the person who asks uses their computer to write programs and play Counterstrike.</p>
<p>no counterstrike for the mac style_</p>
<p>Macs have tons of games!</p>
<p>Breakout, Super Breakout...Photoshop</p>
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<p>They've got some Mac games out there, like Starcraft, Shadowbane, Bugdome, just to name a few, but those are probably just meant to be mild distractions. If you want to really play games on your computer, just get a PC. Not only will you have access to a lot of good PC-only games, but freeware titles on the net for the PC abound. I just finished playing a really good one called "Cave Story", I'd recommend it!</p>
<p>quitejaded,</p>
<p>I have a lvl 61 toon in WoW, beat Oblivion (on my Mac), have an XBox 360 and a Wii, and have a library of computer games stretching all the way back to Oregon Trail.</p>
<p>I'm sort of a gamer. :)</p>
<p>If you want to game on a new Mac, just install Windows and switch over whenever you feel like gaming. Oblivion ran great, and I'm sure the expansion will as well when I get around to playing it.</p>
<p>true gamers play games on a PC. there are just more titles available for PCs, and as new games continue to come they require better hardware and upgrading on a PC is a much more flexible option. You can upgrade your video card or processor or even add more memory to run the game you want better. Good luck doing that on the Mac. You can bring up the fact that you can run Windows on the Mac but the one thing that distinguishes PCs and Macs won't be changing anytime soon: the ability to upgrade your hardware to whatever you want.</p>
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You can bring up the fact that you can run Windows on the Mac but the one thing that distinguishes PCs and Macs won't be changing anytime soon: the ability to upgrade your hardware to whatever you want.
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<p>Find me a Windows laptop you can upgrade much on. </p>
<p>Similarly, you can upgrade Mac Pros just as much as you can upgrade a Wintel.</p>
<p>So I don't see the distinction. </p>
<p>But having all the fastest hardware doesn't make you a "true gamer." It means you have money to upgrade your hardware and spend it on that. That's it.</p>
<p>i am planning on getting a mac because in the long term they are more reliable. plus, i might as well since i have a iPod.</p>
<p>ipods are compatible on pc's as well...</p>
<p>i know that! it would just be easier that way. it took me 2 mins to work my iPod on a mac, but 30 mins on PC</p>
<p><a href="http://techdigest.tv/pcmaclinux.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://techdigest.tv/pcmaclinux.jpg</a></p>
<p>Clearly the choice is linux, no question. And if you're a gamer, you can just have a duel boot system.</p>
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"Find me a Windows laptop you can upgrade much on.</p>
<p>Similarly, you can upgrade Mac Pros just as much as you can upgrade a Wintel.</p>
<p>So I don't see the distinction.</p>
<p>But having all the fastest hardware doesn't make you a "true gamer." It means you have money to upgrade your hardware and spend it on that. That's it.
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Actually that's not all true. Apple isn't as flexible when it comes to hardware upgrades because any kind of hardware you put into your computer has to be certified by Apple. This leaves out some hardware that may be what you're looking for. On a PC that is not the case. It's all about flexibility on upgrading. If I have a low-range graphics card and want mid-range one then I can look around to see what fits without having to worry if the card is certified by Apple or not. That is what I was talking about - it was never about having the fastest computer.</p>
<p>BP-TheGuy88,</p>
<p>Okay, fine. But I still game just as much as all of my PC friends do, and I do it on a Mac.</p>
<p>So...I really don't see the problem here.</p>
<p>I've heard Macs are more reliable and don't get as many viruses. They also don't have as many issues as Windows has. That said, Macs interface SUCKS! Plus, some software isn't Mac-compatible. I'd say get one if you're going to be using a lot of media software. Music, art, movies...that kind of thing.</p>
<p>Look. Just get a Windows PC. Dual-boot with a nice Linux distro (a computer at school has KDE and I've used it, but I'm planning on dual-booting Vista Business instead), and when you want to experience all the fun of a nice UI added with some program and hardware compatibility troubles, load into Linux, when you want to just boot up your computer and play some games or quickly install peripheral software, load into Windows. The best of both worlds.</p>
<p>And the advantages of doing it this way is that you don't have to pay the $100 yearly "Mac tax", you've still got a very large range of hardware add-ons available to you (more important in a desktop, I suppose).</p>
<p>What's a "Mac tax?"</p>