Move to Mac?

Straignt

I have a custom gaming pc I built last summer but its too big for me, but at the same time its perfect for my high demanding needs (gaming, video editing ect.) I was thinking about selling it and buying one of the upcoming 15inch ivy bridge macs. Would this run games at medium settings with fraps? and would this be a good decision?

taylorconor95

Presuming you mean the 15" MacBook Pro, then yes, providing the update to the Ivy Bridge processors contains the expected specifications, it will be more then able to run 3D games with high FPS

Stainless_Steel

Would you be planning on installing windows on it? Because not many games are release for mac os x.

Straignt

Ide prefer not but yep ill have to.

taylorconor95

Straignt wrote: »

Ide prefer not but yep ill have to.

Why would you prefer not? Bootcamp makes it sooo easy and besides, windows will more likely run better on a mac

Straignt

Ide just prefer to have the one os for everything and not have to switch to do different tasks, also having two os's would take up more memory. What is bootcamp?

taylorconor95

"Boot Camp helps install Microsoft Windows on Intel-based (modern) Macs by downloading the necessary support software, creating a partition on your disk for Windows, and then starting the Windows installer"

Basically it makes it very easy for you to set up and install windows on a mac. Than you can choose windows or Mac while booting.

You have full control - you decide how much Hard Drive space it will use, and Boot Camp will make the partition. Of course, you will need the windows disks to install using Boot camp

Straignt

Wow that sounds great, apple really have all the bells and whistles. With windows 8 microsoft are just asking people to move like.

srsly78

The mac experts here have just explained that you will have to use windows for games. How is that encouraging anyone to move to mac? If you run windows on your mac then you are not really using a mac, you are using a pc with a fancy case.

Also note that laptops are very poor compared to desktops for gaming performance, even when it's an expensive laptop like the macbook pro / alienware.

taylorconor95

srsly78 wrote: »

The mac experts here have just explained that you will have to use windows for games. How is that encouraging anyone to move to mac?

Because with mac, you can have both windows and mac

snollup

I'm a mac user but would not recommend you buying a MBP for your intended use. If the main function of your new machine is gaming then buy a pc. I run windows occasionally on my iMac and tbh it's not the same as using a decent pc. It functions but is not nearly as responsive as a pc would be.

Colonel Panic

The 15" MBP will play games okay at medium/high settings but it just gets too damn hot and loud for extended use I find.

Rebooting into Windows is a pain though, so I play a few Steamplay games in OSX but I'm not convinced Apple's OpenGL drivers are the greatest.

mathepac

You do not necessarily need Windows, Bootcamp or other emulators on a Mac to run Windows games or other Windows applications.

Have a look at Wine, WineBottler, Wineskin Winery and a few other projects out there in interweb land.

These programs are free and "wrap" the Windows executable in it's own wrapper, giving you an OS X executable with a Windows program inside that accesses the outside world of OS X via stubs in the wrapper, OS X does the same in reverse.

I'm currently running Nokia Suite inside Wine/WineBottler and am trying to get Microsoft's free end-of-life version of Microsoft Money to work inside another wrapper.

The down side of this is that it is trial and error and the latest and greatest Wine* thing isn't always the one that will work for your Win Prog, but there's loads of help out there in interweb land with blogs and bbs's. HTH and saves a few squids too.

Freddie59

snollup wrote: »

I'm a mac user but would not recommend you buying a MBP for your intended use. If the main function of your new machine is gaming then buy a pc. I run windows occasionally on my iMac and tbh it's not the same as using a decent pc. It functions but is not nearly as responsive as a pc would be.

I'd have to agree. I'm running W7 on a quad-core i7 iMac (through Parallels) and it just doesn't cut it. It tends to labour at times. Doesn't really matter to me though.

srsly78

taylorconor95 wrote: »

Because with mac, you can have both windows and mac

The reverse is true also but we aren't allowed to post about it :pac:

Straignt

Im hoping with the new Mac line-up they don't make it more like the Air with all the rumours going around, ide prefer a thicker laptop with more battery life and better hardware. I doubt they'll do that do I think if anything there going to make it more like the original white macbook.
Thanks for all the advice guys, although im still contemplating what im going to do.