I recently purchased a new macbook pro and this is the first time I've owned a computer that has the hardware to play games. With it being a Mac though I'm realizing that there are not many games to choose from.
I've never played dragon age, but i've heard that both the first and second are playable on Mac. Is this true? I can find the second one for sale on several sites, but nothing shows up for the first.
I'm completely new to the world of Macs, but I've heard that with these new intel based ones it's possible to install windows 7 as a dual OS. I know I'd have to look into this more to make it work, but has anyone done this to play windows games before?
I've never played dragon age, but i've heard that both the first and second are playable on Mac. Is this true? I can find the second one for sale on several sites, but nothing shows up for the first.
I'm completely new to the world of Macs, but I've heard that with these new intel based ones it's possible to install windows 7 as a dual OS. I know I'd have to look into this more to make it work, but has anyone done this to play windows games before?
Dragon Age and Dragon Age 2 are available natively for the mac. I'd suggest looking at Amazon for them. Dragon Age is available for Digital Download.
As for playing games on the PC, I'd suggest a 360 or PS3 (security concerns not withstanding).
with that said, you can either run Dual Boot, run Parallels (treating Windows as a Virtual machine similar to what many corporations due for V-PCs these days) or even consider looking for WINE (similar to running Linux Games).
Dual Boot is the most straight-forward, but Parallels is very very similar (but truly favors multiple cores and memory).
As for Mac haters or cost concerns, I'd suggest most of those are benign so long as you use your machine for things other then games (e.g. 'the' game changer is probably the bundled iLife suite *if you use them
.As for WoW- as the GM for a 7year old Guild on US-Hellscream- I can only state that when people DC and crash, they're invariably found to be on PCs, not Macs ;-).
Good luck.
Gaming on a Mac?
- 23/05/2011 05:50:38 PM
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Not as bad as people claim, mostly thanks to Valve, Blizzard and Bootcamp.
- 23/05/2011 09:15:19 PM
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Mac isn't a cost-efficient way to do anything. 
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- 24/05/2011 07:29:33 AM
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- 24/05/2011 07:29:33 AM
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I'm just sayin'. My field primarily uses Macs, so I have one at home.
- 24/05/2011 03:23:21 PM
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Re: Not as bad as people claim, mostly thanks to Valve, Blizzard and Bootcamp.
- 24/05/2011 06:25:43 PM
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I think you can use one to email someone with a PC and ask if you can come over... *NM*
- 23/05/2011 10:53:59 PM
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I'll probably just be lazy and stick to my 360 for most games 
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- 24/05/2011 06:27:14 PM
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- 24/05/2011 06:27:14 PM
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Welcome to WOW then. lol *NM*
- 24/05/2011 03:36:31 AM
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My wife already vetoed any games with a monthly payment, lol ;-) *NM*
- 24/05/2011 06:26:31 PM
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Re: Gaming on a Mac?
- 29/05/2011 03:42:45 AM
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