ARR and Mac

[ispano]

It's going to actually be DX9, then DX11 sometime after launch.

[Laraul]

There's nothing wrong with Bootcamp, and it doesn't do anything to decrease performance in Windows. Basically, nor does it affect RAM used. All it does is emulate a BIOS so that Windows can install/boot.

No, there's no emulation of anything. Boot camp is just a tool to help assisting in creating a bootable windows partition from MacOS X. That's it. There's nothing unique about PCs that allow Windows to boot. Nor is there anything unique about Macs that prevent Windows from booting. It's like installing Linux on a PC with Windows already installed.

[Millerna]

No, there's no emulation of anything. Boot camp is just a tool to help assisting in creating a bootable windows partition from MacOS X. That's it. There's nothing unique about PCs that allow Windows to boot. Nor is there anything unique about Macs that prevent Windows from booting. It's like installing Linux on a PC with Windows already installed.

Depends on various things.. Windows prior to Vista doesn't support booting on EFI hardware, and starting with Vista supports booting on UEFI hardware. Not all Macs have the latest UEFI, but older EFI, in which case there needs to be a BIOS emulation for Windows to install.

[Hippo]

Do you know What you can build with that money ?! Dont waste your time with hi spec apple cuz your gonna have to run Win on a virtual machine @ half the ram

DO NOT BUY A MAC

buy 2 evga 690s a new mobo & cpu @ half the cost and STILL have money left over

Thanks for your advice but I live in a very small apartment in Japan. The compactness of the iMac (so thin, only 1 wire) as well as being able to blend as a furniture in my living room are major factors for me

If I buy a PC, i would most likely put it into a game/study room and I will lose a spare bedroom

[Millerna]

Do you know What you can build with that money ?! Dont waste your time with hi spec apple cuz your gonna have to run Win on a virtual machine @ half the ram

Virtual machine at half the ram? You're quite clueless on the whole Mac thing aren't you? Bootcamp allows you to run Windows natively on a Mac, no VM, no hardware limitations. Pretty much the same as a dual boot Windows/Linux using Grub for example.

[indira]

imac is just a repackaged laptop.
apple just marks up the price of anything and gives you the worst version of unix.
get a PC if you want games on it.

[Delsus]

I had a look on the apple store at iMacs £160 for an extra 8GB RAM? it's daylight robbery what is it iRAM?

[Klefth]

I had a look on the apple store at iMacs £160 for an extra 8GB RAM? it's daylight robbery what is it iRAM?

I just checked that myself. It says +$200 for the extra 8GB of RAM for the 27" iMac on my end (and six hundred dollars for 32GB of RAM - a high performance 32GB kit costs about $200). Aaaaand +$200 to go from an i5 to an i7 (the difference is $90 between the two).

[Delsus]

I just checked that myself. It says +$200 for the extra 8GB of RAM for the 27" iMac on my end (and six hundred dollars for 32GB of RAM - a high performance 32GB kit costs about $200). Aaaaand +$200 to go from an i5 to an i7 (the difference is $90 between the two).

I want to know what makes iRAM worth that much more than some of the best performing RAM around.

[Klefth]

I want to know what makes iRAM worth that much more than some of the best performing RAM around.

It must be extra shiny, which I guess would go well with all your other Apple shiniez.