FFXIV for Mac

[Rousseau]

Yea.. using great brands like Foxconn

oh wait

Say what you will, but my Macs -always- outlast my PCs. Whatever the PC manufacturers use, it's obviously worse, or has been in the machines and parts I have purchased in the past.

[Rydin]

Say what you will, but my Macs -always- outlast my PCs. Whatever the PC manufacturers use, it's obviously worse, or has been in the machines and parts I have purchased in the past.

Because they are not the exact same parts?
Because every single component in your mac can be used to make a PC.. and since you paid to put windows on yours... the only difference between what you have now and what you'd have if you built a PC is price...
grats

[Rousseau]

Because they are not the exact same parts?
Because every single component in your mac can be used to make a PC.. and since you paid to put windows on yours... the only difference between what you have now and what you'd have if you built a PC is price...
grats

Why, thank you! I am quite happy with my acquisition. It's really nice having money to throw around. Don't be so jelly!

[Naylia]

For anyone assuming that a Foxconn made computer is the same across brands you are wrong.

Foxconn performs final assembly. Many of the companies that use Foxconn for final assembly, manage and dictate to Foxconn the suppliers of the components used in final assembly.

While at b-school I toured Dell. They were proud of the fact that every 2 to 4 weeks they rebid all of the suppliers for a PC model line to get lower prices. So for a given model you actually had different RAM, motherboards, and other components from week to week. As long as they met the sold specs it was fine, but the part supplier can still change constantly. I know this caused our IT department pain because they could not standardize builds purely by model number when something like a motherboard could change mid product life cycle.

You won't see that in an Apple product (and other companies in many other industries). Commitment to quality often means specifying the exact plant that a part from a particular supplier comes from and providing that part to your final assembler. It's the only way to ensure a consistent quality component, and hence a quality final product.

[Renshi]

Mac... PC...
Use whatever you are best fit with. I use Mac so I can test things in both OS X and Windows environments when I develope things. One thing is for sure.
Mac = Work, Graphics | Windows = Games

Of course both environments can be used for both things, but from personal experience games run better on Windows (if they are Windows only) and working is more fluid and safe in a Mac OS X.
I personally have an iMac 27" with a Windows Bootcamp when I wanna play some FFXIV.

[Rydin]

Mac... PC...
Use whatever you are best fit with. I use Mac so I can test things in both OS X and Windows environments when I develope things. One thing is for sure.
Mac = Work, Graphics | Windows = Games

Of course both environments can be used for both things, but from personal experience games run better on Windows (if they are Windows only) and working is more fluid and safe in a Mac OS X.
I personally have an iMac 27" with a Windows Bootcamp when I wanna play some FFXIV.

My brother is all about this... he is so 3DSmax and Blender and Lightwave that he NEEDS a mac....
and if you NEED a Mac for work and you through some bootcamp on there so you can game without buying another PC... then you're just a smart cookie...

edit: that 27" picture is BEAUTIFUL

Why, thank you! I am quite happy with my acquisition. It's really nice having money to throw around. Don't be so jelly!

You're right.. You are free to buy what you like...
You just ruffle feathers when you say:

Say what you will, but my Macs -always- outlast my PCs.

and

I run the game on a top-of-the-line iMac in Bootcamp. It runs as well as it would on some other brand's hardware. Perhaps better, as Apple puts some pretty decent hardware in their machines,

when those things just aren't true (Again, being that they use THE EXACT same parts)

[Rousseau]

Dude, if I say that -I- have better luck with Macs, and that -in my experience- things run just as well or better, how is that not true? Do you have a camera in my house that I don't know about?

You jumped to conclusions about what I said about myself and are acting like I made huge blanket statements. The Mac brand has always meant quality to me, and I used to be a PC user. I had nothing but trouble with them. My run with Macs haven't been perfect, but they've been much better than with PCs. I attribute this to better hardware and/or craftsmanship. If the parts are the same now, I stand corrected, but I don't really care. It's not a big deal, and nothing of value was lost. Chill.

[Renshi]

My brother is all about this... he is so 3DSmax and Blender and Lightwave that he NEEDS a mac....
and if you NEED a Mac for work and you through some bootcamp on there so you can game without buying another PC... then you're just a smart cookie...

I'm not a smart cookie, I'm Renshi, remember that!

edit: that 27" picture is BEAUTIFUL

I know rite...

[Delmontyb]

I really hope with the new 2.0 client we will be able to run this on OS X too.

[MykeMana]

I've been playing on an early 2011 Macbook pro on medium-high settings. Very smooth, just update your drivers and use the safe overclocking method.