I suspect Mac haters (and haters in general) are mostly young teens, so I try to be polite to them.
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Yes, but I donât use Steam because I donât trust their vetting process for my own safety. I just googled it. They donât even have a vetting process, although they will block software that breaks the law (wow, how caring of Valve.) Thereâs one game on their store where you kill sick people to stop the spread of a disease. I wonât mention the disease but you all know it.
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-games-industry-reacts-to-valves-divisive-steam-store-curation-policy/
Your suspicions would be wrong. I detest MACs because they are overpriced, underperforming, unreliable, gimmick-laden pieces of hardware. When I compare my wifeâs iphone to my galaxy, the usability differences are almost staggering - the MAC is awkward, clumsy, and obviously designed with a very specific audience in mind.
When it comes to computers, the gulf is even wider - all of the above criticisms apply, with the added âfeaturesâ of MAC hardward being difficult (and often impossible) to upgrade, severely lacking in peripherals, and poorly optimized for gaming of almost all kinds. MACs have been trash since I was in grade school - they were an exercise in frustration back when I was in undergrad in the early 2000s, and since that time they have only fallen further behind the power curve.
So, yes, there is a reason that people donât like your Jobs-box. But you go ahead and continue to write all of that off as teenage angst.
Oh good lord.
A) The community performs all necessary vetting via reviews - most of which result in an extremely accurate and fair evaluation of the software offered.
B) Nobody should require a âbig brotherâ telling them what they can and cannot purchase. Do 5 minutes of research and youâll know everything you need to about a given piece of software, its development team, any preceding games, etc.
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You might not need a big brother, but not everyone is as smart as you. I have lots of friends and family that need help. I care about those people. You can take care of yourself. You are not a typical computer user. Most people that I know actually want curated software. And itâs not just because some software is offensive, but also because some software is unsafe. I canât understand why so many people want to stop other people from living in a safe, curated world. I presume you want to make curated operating systems, including the iOS App Store, illegal.
How is that a flaw? I agree with you - itâs designed for people who need help with usability and security issues. You donât need those things. I can tell you are a smart guy, but you should also learn to be caring for people who do want and need those things. You should stop hating people who need help. Itâs like hating handicapped people. Stop it.
Unless youâre someone like filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, you wonât need a top of the line Mac Pro.
And if you are a guy like Rodriguez, $55k is a very reasonable investment.
Yes. The Mac Pro is made for a certain audience. And for them itâs a good buy. So is the Mac Mini. No single computer product is good or best for everyone. There are dozens of competitors to Apple and if I wanted to be mean and nasty I could criticize any and all of them for a variety of reasons (cost may not be one of those reasons.) But I generally donât spend energy trashing anyone, unlike the Apple-trashers that always come out of the woodwork. The moment I say the word âAppleâ you always get a few people whose heart rate doubles as they start to spew hatred like Iâm some race-hating extremist.
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I love Macs. Iâve always played WoW on a Mac. I currently play WoW on my 27â iMac. Plays beautifully. Graphics are gorgeous. Never had a problem.
I worked for over a decade in IT from senior level game software tech support to QA Software Test Engineer for several different companies, and Mac has always been the superior system in every instance.
Iâve never understood the Mac hate. Itâs like theyâre threatened in some way. Reminds me of the American football fans who hate soccer as if itâs a competition between the two. Thatâs silly, since fĂștbol is literally the most popular sport on the planet.
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The Macbook Air is the one that donât use Intel now. Itâs basically an ios device with a keyboard now.
By the way, the word soccer was invented at Oxford in the UK.
I donât bother trying to convince people that âMacs are betterâ. Itâs not worth the effort.
And Iâve used a 27 inch 5K monitor to play Wow too, for about 6 or 7 years now. Itâs great, but the textures used by WoW are stretched to fit the screen so Iâm not really getting a real 5K experience. âWarcraft Reforgedâ does have real 5K textures, but the game had such horrid reviews I decided not to get it.
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To run games at the highest possible framerate at 4k or higher resolutions.
I hope you donât mind being corrected, but Apple updated three computers yesterday: the MacBook Air, the MacBook Pro, and the Mac Mini. All three come with the choice of Intel or Apple CPUs. Despite what you said, all of them still come with Intel CPUs if you want to buy them that way.
And all three of these run MacOS, not iOS. They can run MacOS applications which CANNOT run on iOS, so itâs more than just an iOS device with a keyboard. If you were right, it wouldnât be able to run World of Warcraft, but I assure you it can, because itâs not an iOS device.
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I just configured the most expensive dual nvidia 3090 PC with 128Gb of ram, and the total was just over $24000. No mouse and keyboard btw.
Maxing the Mac Pro, but going with 96Gb of ram and a 256gb ssd came to 24,799.00
Because I was limited in socket type by going with the most expensive motherboard the pc config only has a 10 core CPU vs the Mac Proâs 28 core xeon. If Iâd configured the PC with the 28 core Intel 8180 it would have cost more, BUT it DOES have the dual 3090s.
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I trust your numbers. But since very few people care about top performance for a game like WoW, itâs not important to many people. Iâm sure my $699 Mac Mini will run WoW just as good as I need it to. Iâm not even going to check its frame rate because I donât care.
If its a proprietary chip it might just mean a delay in being playable as they figure it out, but they will make it work eventually.
Yes, I agree, it can work, if Blizzard wants to do that. The problem is we donât know if Blizzard wants to do that because they have been 100% silent.
Have to say, I am interested in how well the new macs handle x86 code and whether there is much of a performance hit.
Honestly I donât either. I donât use one but Iâve always been an advocate of some kind of options available - the world would be in a worse odd place if our only options were Windows and Linux platforms.
Very excited for whatâs to come.
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Most likely