ARR and Mac

[Eekiki]

I was reseating the keyboard on the lenovo t61:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Od48R4XxlU

and replacing the dvd drive on the macbook:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l151W_girY

And cleaning out the dust in both machines.

The lenovo had 3~4 different types and length of screws. A 2~3 more pieces to take a part from different angles. The macbook was pretty intuitive to take apart and put back together so it was pretty quick. The lenovo... I accidentally screwed a screw through keyboard membrane while putting it back together because I accidentally picked up the wrong length of screw....

A Macbook from 2008 is a lot different from a Macbook today. So you were taking apart a Macbook from when they actually were designed well.

[Altena]

I ran 1.0 on a late 2009 iMac on Windows 7 via bootcamp.

I know others ran it in Mac OS with some tweaks to get it working.

Yes, 2.0 should work on Mac without any issue.

Also as mentioned above, Bootcamp is not a VM, it is simply a partition that runs Windows. Mac OS is not running in the background when you boot into Windows.

[Zenaku]

@delsus
Ya i don't understand why people buy apple stuff just to waste money to just to pay for all there apps and stuff again. Or waste there money on a overprice computer that is half the power of a 600$ price computer. But if they like apple then let them lol there the one wasting there money for there fav brand not you

[Millerna]

I have several Macs, I just prefer working on them really. I have nothing against Window or Linux, or any other OS.. I use Windows for some games, and Linux on servers for the most part. A computer is just a tool, and some people just prefer certain (brands) of tools.

Apple's laptops aren't actually THAT overpriced considering they are really sturdy (I accidentally dropped my 13" Macbook Air from just below shoulder height, and only got a small dent in the casing, my father's plastic Acer would've shattered).

The Mac Pro's aren't actually overpriced either (as long as you don't by RAM from Apple ...) It's just that usually people compare a Mac Pro to a PC running something like a single quad core intel i7, whereas the Mac Pro has 2 physical Xeon CPU's, which are more expensive. Try building a similar system from other manufacturers with a dual Xeon, and the price difference isn't that bad.

The iMacs on the other hand are really expensive, but a good chunk of the cost is in the display. They're using high quality colour calibrated screens. Generally though, the iMacs are definitely the most expensive when compared to a PC.


On topic: my desktop machine is a 5-ish year old Mac Pro, it's had a RAM upgrade as well as a GPU upgrade during those 5 years. Using bootcamp it runs games just fine, even Skyrim wasn't much of a problem on high settings. FFXIV 1.0 ran fine as well with only some lag in Ul'dah. There's no reason ARR won't run on a Mac running bootcamp, as long as you don't get one with integrated graphics.

[Joakim]

I ran ARR Alpha on the latest iMac 21,5" using bootcamp and had no problems at all. U can use a USB drive to install windows from or buy apples USB-drive.

I suggest u really open your wallet if u want an iMac with powerful hardware.
The standard editions won't run ARR on full specs!!!

[Laraul]

I am torn between buying the latest 27' iMac vs the 15.4' Macbook pro. I already have the previous generation 27' iMac so if I buy the Macbook Pro, can I use the 27' iMac as my monitor?

You should be able to. Best thing to do would be to drag that iMac down to your local Apple Store and try it yourself. You will need a keyboard hooked into the iMac to press CNTRL-F6 (I beleive that's the shortcut to toggle the iMac as an external display).

Can anyone give me some advice? As the new generation macs don't come with a dvd drive, anyone knows how to install windows on it?

Use a Firewire cable to connect your old iMac to your new one, put the old iMac in target disk mode (hold CMD-T at boot) and use your old computer's CD drive to install Windows from. The new computer will treat all the drives in the old one as external drives.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

hmmmm apple pie... wha.. what are we talking about again? *nom nom apple pie*

[Pseudopsia]

My advice to Mac buyers is to avoid any Macs that only comes with Intel HD 4000 graphics, this applies to PCs as well. 15" Mac book Pro and iMacs are good since they come with Nvidia GT 650M or better.

Below is a chart generated from notebook check that shows the performance differences between GPUs that come with the newer Macs.

Source: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-...ist.844.0.html

[ArkhamNative]

Random Heinlein quote: "Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

[ispano]

As for the display comment, Apple displays often use the same panels that other high quality Monitor builders use. Dell shares many of the same panels in some of their monitors. For the same price or less AND with more features usually.

I did a bunch of research when I bought my 30" about a year ago.

That makes me remember something else someone said. That apple uses the more expensive panels, IPS and usually good ones at that, as standard. And so some/many(not all mind you) Apple users think that those are standard displays and the cheaper ones in stores are just crap, because Apple's are better. But if you were to ask those same people to pay for a display on it's own of that quality they might balk at the price. I actually met a guy like this one.

Not trying to bash you, just things I have noticed.