Interesting to note the Hero engine is used in ESO and it support Mac fine. So it might just need to be upgraded to the newest version of the engine thus saving developer hours from having to switch to another game engine.

I doubt it would burn developer hours as there seem to be a team in EA/BioWare porting games over both SW: Knights of the Old Republic games have made the move this last year. It also seem that the other major developer houses (ie NCsoft, Blizzard, Trion) are providing Mac client as part of the PC platform. It make sense as you are able to generate more revenue. I think that while there will still be a Windows Vs Mac debate the days of developers only supporting one or the other are starting to disappear.

You don't have to partition the Mac. You can use VMware, Parallel, or VNC to create a virtual machine. then install Windows on to it then SWTOR. This will allow to play no problem and you don't have to deal with a Windows partition. You still will need a copy of Windows with a key to install it

After reading the posts and looking at the screenshots I like what BW did. Although I do agree with the point of the armor sets being sold as a whole and separately. I'm happy that BW didn't do what another game did and went with level caps on the armor as with armor found via mobs and such. I saw a point made about the legacy system unlocks. I hope that they include the perks such as the speeder speed I, etc as part of the shop. Although I can see why they won't include the races as the shop is made mostly for the F2P players, which are limited to 3 races.