If You're a Gamer...

[prime]

Personally, I love Macs. They're very stable and easy to use. I think the Mac is the best platform for anything--except for one thing. I plan to keep my Mac, and when I have the money, buy a PC for gaming.

If you're a Mac user and a gamer, do you own a PC for gaming?

[stealth]

buy a pc for gaming? ...

thats why the make GAME CONSOLES! they are specialised for gaming. why buy a pc and have all sorts of problem with it when u can get an Xbox or GameCube for a much lower price and with much much better games for these platforms
pcs might be better for games than macs. but thats only good if u wanna buy a pc instead of a mac. if u ALREADY have a mac, WHY go buy a pc for games and waste ur money ? in that sense, Nintendo would not be alive really!

[hulkaros]

Although the situation is getting better and better still the Mac is behind the PC...

However, the games which so far released on the Mac are awesome with Warcraft 3 and Jedi Knight 2 being my favorites Another game that looks and plays awesome is Return to Castle Wolfenstein! BUT it needs a powerful Mac to play nice...

Anyways, Mac need MORE games and at a faster rate if Apple wants families to jump on the switching thing! I know that Mac users are people who create stuff or at least are part of many creation processes but I think that they also need to play once in a while games and they shouldn't buy another computer to have that... Not even XBOX or PS2 or Gamecube... They have a Mac which CAN offer them what other platforms do and maybe a bit easier --rendezvous network games, drag & drop install, plug and play mice, joypads, etc!

So far, thank you Aspyr, Blizzard, et al companies which try hard to make Macs a better gaming platform... Now, if Apple will start supporting them with more gaming tools at a faster rate? 10.2.3 and the new Dev Tools are a nice step in the right direction

[Giaguara]

I play on my mac. Though i've considered buying an xbox .. to use it as server (linux, mysql, apache etc) .. besides, i cant find my fav game for pc [deimos rising] .. i'm not a game addict, apart from that i have only quake, pop pop and Xgates

[stealth]

mac games might be great.(like Jedi Knight 2) but they take a long time to come to macs. Wheres Halo???

[hulkaros]

Originally posted by stealth
mac games might be great.(like Jedi Knight 2) but they take a long time to come to macs. Wheres Halo???

Halo isn't out for PC yet!!! Yes, I know it should be out first for Mac then everything else but hey M$ bought the poor company and then forced them to create the game for XBOX...

And yes it is AWESOME on XBOX... Now, I can't wait for Halo to play it on my PowerBook and I bet you can't wait to play it on your 17" PBook either

[stealth]

no i cant wait. especially if im on a plane goin from greece to england( or sweden) . it would be cool to take out my powerbook and start playin jedi knight. or halo. or watch a DVD on that huge screen :P its excitin.. :P

[dePoPo]

Turn it anyway you want, but for any serious online gamer a pc is the only way. I own 3 macs, and a dual processor Xeon PC just for gaming. Life is perfect