Even Macbook air can play Crysis, so why buy Sager machine?

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OnLive just introduced a service that helps you play the game belonged to "top" does not present that requires the processor card or display expensive.
Frame rate still reached 60 fps when set high configuration.



Steve Perlman, CEO OnLive, said after the experience on the Apple Quicktime and Microsoft WebTV, his team has invented a method to help gamers play games on any PC or any Mac.


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There are many, many questions yet to be answered about OnLive and it's feasibility.

 

very much so. the concept is sweet, but the success of its practical implementation remains to be seen.

 

Hey, it's beta

 

There are still many areas in the U.S where broadband internet is not available at all or very expensive. If OnLive completely replaces consoles and gaming PCs, do we want to cut them off entirely?

Internet service providers are now putting bandwidth caps on their service, such as 150gb download a month. Things like Youtube, Hulu, Netflix are already eating up bandwidth, what of OnLive?

OnLive may go down sometimes for maintenance or other issues. What if it goes down right after I come back from a hard day of work or school and I finally have time to play some games and the service is down?

I'm sure that OnLive would not allow custom maps and mods that so many PC games have on their own servers and computers used to render the games to stream back to us. And custom mods and levels add a ton of replayability to PC titles.

What if I want to play an older game a couple of years down the road for nostalgia or I never got to play it and OnLive removes it from their service?

If it completely replaces physical consoles and gaming PCs, I will be quite unhappy. But as a complement, then it is not such a bad idea.

 

So I can play crysis on my old pc at 60FPS?


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It doesn't sound like there is much info about this or how it works but if I can play crysis at 60fps on a crappy notebook...that would be interesting

 

Please revise title to

"Apple computers are expensive and contain the same parts as a Sager, but for more money per part. Why buy them?"

Enjoy spending hundreds of dollars a month for bandwidth to actually get any use out of this. Forget multiplayer my good sir.

 

Dude, I think you missed the point, you're thread should be "even an Emachine or Averatec can play Crysis".... a Macbook Air is overpriced regardless.

anyways, we have to wait and see how the servers hold up and how it responds in the real world especially on a unstable college wireless connection for example...

 

lol

this thread was asking for a flame war sooner or later.

 

when i saw the title i was already scared to even click the link for fear of being burned by the flames within

my opinion on the subject is pretty much what Rahul said; a very well-phrased post that didnt really leave anything out

as an aside, i would love to try this thing but would never replace a high-end laptop with it

 

wasnt there already a thread about this? or is it a dejavu!?!?

 

Yeah this was already posted and because this thread is converting into a flamewar anyway I'm closing it down. Please continue the discussion in the original thread:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=365527