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DaenShadow

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  1. Uh, Mac uses UEFI. It's not any different than a PC that uses UEFI. BootCamp is just a custom UEFI boot manager/loader no different than BCD in Windows or the Clover boot manager/loader for hacks or Grub for Linux. They all support UEFI and Legacy (BIOS) booting. Yes, BootCamp can be put into legacy/BIOS mode. BootCamp doesn't emulate anything. It's a boot manager. It provides a GUI that allows the user to select what boot device they want to boot to. The BootCamp assistant is just a tool to automate the partitioning and installation of Windows. There is no difference in hardware architecture between a PC and a Mac. They use the same processors, graphics cards, etc. as PCs. Yes, Apple makes their own motherboards... but that is no different than Gigabyte or Asus creating their own motherboards. That's why you can install macOS on a PC. I guess you never have built a Hackintosh before? I have a MacBook Pro and a Mac Pro (2007) as well as a home built PC. I run Windows on all of them as well as macOS. MacOS runs natively on my PC (I use Clover to boot). I just have to provide a few drivers that macOS doesn't ship with so I can use some of my hardware... just like I'd need to do with Windows if Windows didn't ship with a driver for my hardware. MacOS is based on BSD. It's a Unix like system that can run most Linux apps as well. Steam has SteamOS that is based on Linux. That's why on Steam, most games now are released as PC/Mac/Linux. 97 out of 262 of my Steam games I can install on macOS. And most of those are newer games... XCOM2, Civ V, Civ: Beyond Earth, Company of Heroes 2, Age of Wonders III, Total War: Attila, Divinity Original Sin enhanced edition, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, The new Shadowrun games, Tomb Raider (reboot), Thief, Dragon Age games, Mass Effect games, Sims, War Thunder, Eve Online, Elite Dangerous, Assassin's Creed games, The Witcher games, ESO, World of Warcraft, Diablo III... should I go on? And some of those games are not from real big game studios (AOW III for instance among others). Its the older games on Steam that don't typically run on Mac (hence only 97 out of 262). There are a lot of tools out there that allow you to develop an app/game and then compile it for multiple platforms. It really wouldn't be that hard to create a Mac Client for SWOTR. It uses the Hero engine. The same engine that ESO uses. The odd thing is, almost all EA/Bioware games run on macOS... so sort of odd this wouldn't. If EA/Bioware already makes it a point to support macOS. So not sure why with all that, they haven't made a client yet... I'm not a PC/Windows snob or a macOS/Apple snob. I use Windows, macOS, Linux, and BSD for different things. I prefer Apple's design aesthetic over all of them, so I prefer to hang out in macOS/iOS.
  2. It seems not doing a mac client isn't a great idea.... Maybe they wouldn't have lost so many subs... who knows? Wow, a lot of uninformed people about Mac... One thing, third party hardware companies can release drivers for Mac OS... nVidia just released Mac OSX drivers. "http://www.tonymacx86.com/257-nvidia-releases-mountain-lion-10-8-2-graphics-drivers.html" And there are a fair amount of hardware companies that make hardware for the Mac and develop drivers for them... This isn't an exclusive Mac or PC world... Mac is great for a lot of things and appeals to people that like style, function and ease of use with good technology that doesn't get in the way. PC's are really just about function and not much style...it's all about function and cost. I wouldn't call stupid looking Alien cases style. Anyway, as some people have stated, high end PC's cost the same or more than Macs do and you really don't get much more function or performance. The new Macs are equal with PCs...heck they are PC's...They run Intel CPUs... Oh and who said Mac OS cost $800 to Windows $100-$200? Uh, Not sure what cool-aid you're drinking, but OS X Mountain Lion cost $19.99 for upgrade at the App Store. Try to buy a Windows Upgrade License for that? And by the way, you did have to buy the hardware for that PC as well...so tack on that $100-$200 on to the hardware cost of the PC as well... There isn't that much of a difference... Also, Mac is the leader in the laptop market at ~27% (just counting MacBook Pro and MacBook Air). That's a lot of Mac OS's out there. Why so much hate toward Macs? I use both PCs and Macs. I prefer Macs simply because they are form, function and performance...and they just work.
  3. First... um, you obviously haven't looked at the current MACs. Here's what you can get on a current iMac: AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2GB GDDR5. as well as a current 3.4 GHz i7 CPU. This is from the Apple website. You are obviously uninformed. My PC currently has a Radeon 5870 2GB RAM GDDR5 video card and 3.4 GHz i7 CPU. It runs the game maxed out perfectly fine. A current iMac would beat my performance, so yes they can play games and not just Photoshop. Why people think this, I have no idea. Rather ridiculous. Anyway, I'd love for a Mac client to be made. I also dual boot Windows 7 and Mac OS X Lion on my PC. Frankly I only boot into Windows 7 when I play games that MAc doesn't have. You can get Dues Ex: Human Revolution on Mac now, Most BioWare games (Assassin's Creed series, Dragon Age series, Mass Effect), Civ V, World of Warcraft (hate the game, but it's popular), just to name a few. Not supporting Mac would not be a good decision. More and more people I know of are moving to Mac...they are tired of PCs and Windows....I'm one of them...I'd use Mac over a PC any day if game developers started supporting it more. And by the way I've been in the high tech industry for 20+ years. I know Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc. I like the look and feel of OS X. I'm definitely not too impressed with Windows 8... looks like a Kindergarten OS... Anyway, YES...Mac OS client!
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