Rejoice Mac gamers:Call of Duty 4 Headed to Mac

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May 2008!?!?!

PC > Mac.

 

*Wonders how well his MB will run it.*

 

Mac Gamers?

I'm sorry but that made me laugh. It's like an oxymoron.

 

People need to get out of this thinking, im a gamer who owns a Mac for its l33tness in the creative arts, i play Eve online on this macbook pro... this laptop would tear up most pc's. 2.4 c2d , 4 gigs of ram , 8600m gt , beast OS , LED screen thats like looking into the heavens, makes me cry every time i turn this baby on....hehe im not a fanboy by any means, and i know im out numberd and alot of your machines have better graphics cards but my point is, in my observations, most of the people who use macs are affluent gamers... so oxymoron that....

 

And on a side not....

Im glad its comming, but by May 2008 they game will have been out for 6 months and already reached its maturation in the gaming world, so we dont get that initial buzz stage where everyone is excited to play, but it better not suck like the first BF2142 port

 

Granted mac's and the macbook pro's got great amounts of power for gaming but the lack of games and the fact the same laptop can be had for about a grand cheaper as a PC says a lot.

I am not bashing mac's but for the cost i'd rather get a PC or pc notebook and then buy software for what im needing it for.

 

Too bad I've been playing it on my Mac since Christmas Boot Camp > waiting for ports

And @ Navy: People are kind of backed into a corner with Macs. They are very pricey, but if you need OS X there isn't much choice. So most Mac owners can't buy a PC instead.

 

Who *needs* OS X?

 

The other guys and galls, who don't want to put up with Windows' crap anymore.

Think of it like you *need* windows, others need OS X.

 

I guess since i grew up with PC's and just don't do any big photo editing or video editing in prefer a PC. I like the slick interface and the way Mac's work but i guess the all-mighty (or should i say dying) dollar wins out for me. Probably helps since i know the in's and out's of PC's and can troubleshoot them myself as needed.

I use my notebook for web surfing, general computer use and gaming so a PC is exactly what i need.

 

Im glad this is coming out for the mac as the more games that come out for the mac, the more competition between MS and Aplle, which can only result in better support and features for consumers as they try and out do eachtother.

 

I am hard-pressed to find a mac gamer who has spent less than two grand on his system, or who has hacked an x86 machine to run OS X.

 

I do, and so does everyone else with a career in design.

 

There's a difference between easier to use than *Needing* it.

 

That is such a common lie and myth. It is the most sorry, elitist excuse ever.

 

there is some mac only soft out there buddy.. so some ppl do need it

 

Design software? The most commonly used and published design software is probably Adobe Creative Suite, which is ported for both Mac and Windows.

 

in the most philosophical sense, all you "need" is food, water, and shelter, and maybe not even shelter.

it is easy to pick apart anyone who posits that they "need" osx. its obviously a "want". its a choice you make. sometimes its a smart business choice to buy a mac, for people in the design industry where their personal image might be at stake depending on what kind of computer they use... and that could possibly translate to sales.

I personally don't require osx, but I PREFER it to windows for normal tasks, and if a game came out for windows and osx within a reasonable time frame, and it ran reasonably in both operating systems, I would get it for the mac. Unfortunately CoD4 missed the timeframe mark. Obviously mac development was an afterthought (people already got CoD4 working well on wine, I am 99% sure that this is going to be a cedega port)

C&C3 is the only example I can think of. bf2142 didn't go so well, nor did madden 08... sigh...

In college, I end up using expensive software. If it is available on windows and osx, I'm getting the osx version. Osx is more convenient for me, and I'm tired of using windows. Thats all there is to it.

 

iLife, Final Cut, Logic, Shake, WebObjects, Aperture, plus every program windows has that's worth owning.

Anyway, this thread isn't about "needing" OS X. Maybe I don't absolutely need OS X, and would be able to sc****(lol@sensorship) by with Windows, but if I had a choice between what I wanted to use, I'd say OS X any day. But nothing beats having both OS X and Windows on the same computer.