Mac's "Great" apparently... but why doesnt it run games?

[Urederra]

Macs are like cars with automatic transmission. Easy to use but you can't do very much with them.

I can run finder, Open the applications folder, go to utilities, open a terminal and use any unix, perl or C program I or others have created. I can write my molecular modelling scripts in my iBook, make a test run, and send them to run in the supercomputers I have accounts on.

Sure I can write my scripts in a windows PC, but in order to do that I have to install a program and get conected to a UNIX terminal, otherwise I won't be able to make a test run because the windows PC does not support the programs I am using.

I have the same background, and all I can say is that networking, be it wireless or LAN, is a b!tch.

You don't know how happy I was when I opened up my ibook and it asked me if I wanted to use my neighbour's wireless network it just detected. Hell yes, please, Free internet access without having to configure anything.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

I think these comics sum it up rather well:

 

[Speedo]

I love the Mac vs PC commercials. They really are hilarious when you stop and realize that many of the people at Apple and their fanbois actually believe that stuff.

 

[Maniacal]

Macs are great for media (movies, musicand pictures) editing. They are also more stable.

If I could play all my gams on mac, and run X-Fire and FRAPS on mac, I'd switch immediately. Same with linux.

Macs are easy to use once you spend some time with them, my dad has a mac laptop which we use to watch movies (he also has a projecter he uses for work that he brings home).

Their naming system is also better, I love cats! Windows on the other hand can be broken and can't hunt. Also people give you strange looks when you pet a window.

 

[Speedo]

Macs are great for media (movies, musicand pictures) editing. They are also more stable.

Yet somehow I manage to do all of that stuff (plus 1000x more) on XP Pro, and I'm struggling to remember the last time I had a crash or lockup. A miracle worker I must be!

 

[azzaman333]

Yet somehow I manage to do all of that stuff (plus 1000x more) on XP Pro, and I'm struggling to remember the last time I had a crash or lockup. A miracle worker I must be!

You must .

 

[kryszcztov]

Macs are expensive, and Mac OS X isn't a free software. Enough to discard this system, to me.

 

[T.A JONES]

Hey they got CIv3 Complete right? and probably will get Civ5. I don't know what else you'd want. I have a PC and don't like the ads but that actor must have signed a huge contract for that spot

 

[marioh]

Market share.

Same reason why Mac's have less known exploits/security holes. Also the same reason why only a small fraction of viruses, spyware/adware/etc target Mac OS's.

 

[Verbose]

Microsoft won the war for market standard. Someone mentioned the Betamax, clearly a superior system to VHS, but VHS bet on porn and won the war for market standard.

From then on everything is rigged to support them. They don't have to be good. They're the standard.

Sitting in Sweden I can order games for the Mac over the internet from the UK or France.
I can't, however, buy games for the Mac in Sweden. The nation's retailers have taken a joint decision not to sell games for the Mac. That's good for Microsoft, and they never had to do a damn thing.

 

[Pyrion]

It's not simply "market share" though. It's not as if Apple has attempted to increase their market share by leaps and bounds. Apple has always catered to what I like to call the "elitist *******" crowd.

It's about the equivalent of buying an Alienware, only you trade usability for cleaner looks. You still end up with people laughing at you.

Really, if you want to buy an awesome-looking and functional computer and can afford to spend a small fortune on one, you buy something from Falcon Northwest. But that's like the equivalent of buying a Lamborghini in PC terms.

 

[Maniacal]

You don't know how happy I was when I opened up my ibook and it asked me if I wanted to use my neighbour's wireless network it just detected. Hell yes, please, Free internet access without having to configure anything.

I know, with my dad's mac laptop we tkae it on trips and it's nice when places like hotels don't password their networks! Just sit out in the parknig lot, check e-mail, forums, etc.

So easy.

 

[GenMarshall]

Macs are expensive, and Mac OS X isn't a free software. Enough to discard this system, to me.

Unfortunately, nothing in life is free. Even computers themselves have a price on them.

 

[Serutan]

One other reason Macs dont' have many games is that, for
a long time, at least, Macs were hell to program.

 

[Murky]

Back when I was in college only a few people had Macs and nobody did their programming for classes on them. Everything was done on Dos/Windows except for the Mainframe assignments. Then we just wrote the code on the Windows machines then uploaded it to the Mainframe.

 

[kryszcztov]

Unfortunately, nothing in life is free. Even computers themselves have a price on them.

Sorry boy, you're wrong. GNU/Linux are free (as in speech) software, and usually cost nothing to the customer. I got my Ubuntu distro for zero euro.

 

[croxis]

Games are made to run on DirectX. DirectX is only for Windows. Bring DirectX to the Mac OS and boom, you could make games for both using DirectX easy

 

[Murky]

Games are made to run on DirectX. DirectX is only for Windows. Bring DirectX to the Mac OS and boom, you could make games for both using DirectX easy

I think that's why they invented OpenGL so that you could port code from Windows to Linux without the need for DirectX. The problem is the driver support for Linux is lacking atm.

 

[Maniacal]

I think that's why they invented OpenGL so that you could port code from Windows to Linux without the need for DirectX. The problem is the driver support for Linux is lacking atm.

ANd M$ is trying to replace OpenGL with DirectX for obvious reasons.

 

[classical_hero]

Microsoft won the war for market standard. Someone mentioned the Betamax, clearly a superior system to VHS, but VHS bet on porn and won the war for market standard.

From then on everything is rigged to support them. They don't have to be good. They're the standard.

Sitting in Sweden I can order games for the Mac over the internet from the UK or France.
I can't, however, buy games for the Mac in Sweden. The nation's retailers have taken a joint decision not to sell games for the Mac. That's good for Microsoft, and they never had to do a damn thing.

Unfortunately when things become the standard, often quality goes down.

I like when Snake steals a video recorder, he says this, "Oh no, beta."