Quote Originally Posted by Delily View Post
My point was that for my parameters, the increased cost of performance was a good tradeoff.
I am well aware that you meant you where ok with paying for this because of your preference. Which is why I moved my argument on why such preferences have no place on a performance comparison. You can not use personal preferences as an argument and then be angry when someone addresses them.

For example, I very much prefer gaming laptops over desktops because I travel a lot. But if I where to use that preference to say that gaming laptops are equal in performance than desktops I will be promptly ridiculed. It is simply not true. While they can be overkill for almost every game out there, a similarly priced Desktop will stlll outperform it. They can still be a better buy, but never because they have the best performance.

Even with that, this argument ignores the fact that this hardware has been more than capable of playing this game at full settings for almost a year now. Ait has for many people playing through Bootcamp. The hardware is not subpar for a 2 year old game.
And why would that be relevant? We are not discussing if the games can be run, but how well it can run them and if they are available at all. Of course it can run it (I would be worried if it couldn't), but an equivalent PC would run it better.

Quote Originally Posted by Delily View Post
World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, Guild Wars 2, and Bioshock Infinite all worked just fine in OS X.
WoW took years for Mac. Diablo I and II require you to run an emulator to get it working on Mac, and 1 out of 3 bioshocks working isn't a great record. And this are all pretty big companies, mind you.



Our points are simple: Mac Hardware under-performs in a fair comparison, and the game selection, on top of the game experience, is severely impaired. Not only are games seldom ported over, they are usually poorly ported. Most companies do a wrapper, or update the PC version over the MAC, or simply get bugs fixed at a slower pace. What is happening right now with Mac client being terrible is a story I've heard repeated so many times before.

Heck, here's a real life example of why gaming on Mac is so terrible: Me and my friends regularly play together in a friends house. He has a Mac Pro (Yes, the Black tower monster thing), while we typically bring our laptops.

My laptop is a $750, Windows 7, i7 second generation, Geforce 610m. His Pro is the >$2500 8-core Xeon E5, running on I believe dual FirePro D500 cards.

Which computer do you think can run more games on their native system based on this specs? The answer: My crappy Laptop.

Pretty much everything we play requires him to get on Boot camp, even minecraft (Altho that one is mostly cuz we are not making 2 modpacks just for him). He loves his Mac and that's that, but this really illustrates how bad gaming on Mac OS really is.