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Poll: Gaming PC or BootCamp
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Do you guys own a separate PC for gaming or use your MacBook Pro or Mac Pro
for gaming ?
While I am asking, anyone tried playing windows games (e.g. HL2) on the MBP on a 30"
cinema display ? Can it drive games at the full resolution and all its glory ?
I am thinking of getting a 30" cinema display for my MBP. The only problem is that
my custom built gaming PC will be left headless - I don't think there is any KVM
switch that will be able to handle the resolutions required. Any suggestions as to how
to solve this ?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Nashville, TN
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I'm a Boot Camp man...
I've seen HL2, run from Boot Camp, sent out to a 24" display... and it looked as good as it ever has.
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Don't try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Portland, OR
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I have a pre-Boot Camp PC I still use.
Pentium 4 3.6 ghz, 1.5 gigs of DDR2 RAM, Radeon X700 PCI Express, 120 gig SATA HD, DVD/CD-RW. The board has crossfire support and dual RAID controllers in case I want to upgrade it more later.
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8 Core 2.8 ghz Mac Pro/GF8800/2 23" Cinema Displays, 3.06 ghz Macbook Pro
Once you wanted revolution, now you're the institution, how's it feel to be the man?
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Northern VA
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I would use boot camp, but since I don't have an intel Mac, I have to use my Athlon box. I don't really play a lot games on it anymore, I use it as a media/file etc. server.
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
4GB DDR333 RAM
74GB 10000RPM as C Drive (I'm pretty sure it's SCSI)
250, 300, 500, 500 (all 7200RPM SATA) As a Concatenation RAID config
nVidia 7800 AGP
Ageia Physx (No use because there are no drivers for 2003 server)
2 DVD DL burners
Winblows 2003 Server enterprise/Mandrake Linux
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iMac 24" | Core 2 Extreme 2.8GHz | 4GB RAM | 500GB HD
PowerBook G4 15" HR | 1.67GHz | 2GB RAM | 100GB HD
R.I.P 1995 Toyota Supra NA-T
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
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I think a MacBook Pro or a Mac Pro would be capable gaming computers. You'd also save money and space by not having an additional PC.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Boot Camp doesn't have full graphics support yet, so either play limited games in Boot Camp, or get a PC and then sell it when Boot Camp works properly.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Portland, OR
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Originally Posted by Strupat
Boot Camp doesn't have full graphics support yet, so either play limited games in Boot Camp, or get a PC and then sell it when Boot Camp works properly.
Um, Boot Camp does have full graphics support. There are some glitches in DirectX games with the ATI drivers, but that's ATI's fault.
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8 Core 2.8 ghz Mac Pro/GF8800/2 23" Cinema Displays, 3.06 ghz Macbook Pro
Once you wanted revolution, now you're the institution, how's it feel to be the man?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: "Working"
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Originally Posted by Strupat
Boot Camp doesn't have full graphics support yet, so either play limited games in Boot Camp, or get a PC and then sell it when Boot Camp works properly.
Are you sure about that one? People are reporting excellent performance in WoW, CoD, etc. Once you boot into Windows and install the drivers, it's no different from a PC, so you might as well just use one machine.
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Um, Boot Camp does have full graphics support. There are some glitches in DirectX games with the ATI drivers, but that's ATI's fault.
Ok, so it has full support, but it doesn't have full support.
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: on the verge of insanity
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I just recently got a PC box that I'm going to upgrade into a gaming PC. When all is said and done, I'll have a nice geek station of a Mac, PC and Linux boxes.
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I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Originally Posted by Strupat
Ok, so it has full support and I'm not going to say anything more.
Fixed.™
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Portland, OR
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Originally Posted by Strupat
Ok, so it has full support, but it doesn't have full support.
It has full support. So much full support in fact, it even has the glitches in ATI drivers. Only very specific DirectX games don't work.
BootCamp isn't doing any emulation. It's running Windows natively with the official ATI drivers. It is "full support".
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8 Core 2.8 ghz Mac Pro/GF8800/2 23" Cinema Displays, 3.06 ghz Macbook Pro
Once you wanted revolution, now you're the institution, how's it feel to be the man?
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Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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I have a desktop PC, a laptop PC, and now a MacBook Pro. I don't have time for games (beyond a card game or two just to kill time).
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Oakland, CA
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Gaming PC here. I'll NEVER buy another Mac game.
Athlon X2 3800+ @ 2.6GHz
nVidia 7800GT
Two Dell 24" 2405 I split with my G4 Quicksilver (Upgraded 1.2GHz)
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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I have an aging Shuttle with AMD 3200+ and Radeon 9800 Pro.
With Crysis, UT2K7 and stuff based on those engines coming soon, I'm looking to upgrade. I'd love to buy a Headless Wonder Mac, if one comes out and dual boot that. If not, I'll just go with another Shuttle.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
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You've ommited some realistic options, mainly Linux using WINE (or Mac OS X using DARWINE) or owning a game console. For me, it's game consoles. I'd ever willingly own or use a Microsoft product whilst there are options.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: ~/
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Louisiana
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Don't play PC games. I'm a console guy, myself.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hong Kong
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Original XBox in use here.
I never use my computers for playing games, even back in the dark ages when I was using a pee cee
Halo2 and Far Cry anyone?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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World of Warcraft anyone?
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Yeah. Where's the "I only play Mac OS X native games"-option?
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jan 2006
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I intend to get a MacPro in the future to play my old PPC games in emulation and then dual-boot via BootCamp to play my old Windows games. Would I ever get a game programed for the Mac? Probably not.......... i don't know..... it depends. The over-all quality of those Mac games would have to be on the level of today's console and PC games for me to even consider it.
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Don't bully me, I got an Uzi... HOO-HAH!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Pacific NW
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Originally Posted by goMac
Um, Boot Camp does have full graphics support. There are some glitches in DirectX games with the ATI drivers, but that's ATI's fault.
So what you are saying is that Apple was so good they were able to emulate all of the "features" that make Windows so enjoyable?
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Doncaster/Lincoln, UK
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At the moment, seperate PC (X2 3800+, 2GB RAM, X1900XTX) though I'm probably going to part it out to raise some cash to go towards an iMac purchase soon.
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PowerBook G4 1.5ghz.
iMac 24" when I have the currency.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Portland, OR
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I was actually thinking about selling my PC for a Mac Pro today, but I think I'm going to wait until they add enough PCI Express lanes to do Crossfire/SLI.
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8 Core 2.8 ghz Mac Pro/GF8800/2 23" Cinema Displays, 3.06 ghz Macbook Pro
Once you wanted revolution, now you're the institution, how's it feel to be the man?
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