FFXIV for Mac

[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.

[Jadi]

You can play on Mac and Linux now due to the wonderful people at the Wine project and their work porting a Native Win32 API to Unix. That is probably the way it's going to be for alternative OS's for some time as Microsoft's advertising department still seems to be able to convince people to buy their piece of crap software for some unknown reason. (And It is total crap people, stop buying it.)

That being said that statement is more due to the fact that the Unreal Engine has typically been ported to Mac and Linux, however the version they are doing for XIV has not yet been ported to Linux.. It does have mobile OS ports though and as we all know *nix rules the mobile market.

[Valmonte]

You can play on Mac and Linux now due to the wonderful people at the Wine project and their work porting a Native Win32 API to Unix. That is probably the way it's going to be for alternative OS's for some time as Microsoft's advertising department still seems to be able to convince people to buy their piece of crap software for some unknown reason. (And It is total crap people, stop buying it.)

That being said that statement is more due to the fact that the Unreal Engine has typically been ported to Mac and Linux, however the version they are doing for XIV has not yet been ported to Linux.. It does have mobile OS ports though and as we all know *nix rules the mobile market.

Who said i bought it?

[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.

[MicahZerrshia]

Seems to me there are a few ppl here who drank the iKool-aid

Letting ppl have the ability to play on a mac would be a great thing, but the relatively small number of ppl who use them couple with the costs of printing discs, tweaking things to work on a mac and even rewriting in-game script (tutorials and such) and the booklets for mac users would not really be cost effective.

reguardless apple isnt really made for gaming, they are overpriced machines that at one time did a few things better than a pc but pc has caught up and surpassed apple in many ways so you have an overpriced, mid-quality pc mostly that still cant run everything it should. Its more a status thing at this point. Even indesign, photoshop, autocad and what not run better for me on my pc and hp laptop than on my apple with fewer problems, crashes and stops. Even the design dept at school scrapped all their macs for pc cause the pc performed better.

Cant tell that to the iCult tho, they will summon the ghost of Steve Jobs bring a blight upon your house

[Valmonte]

Seems to me there are a few ppl here who drank the iKool-aid

Letting ppl have the ability to play on a mac would be a great thing, but the relatively small number of ppl who use them couple with the costs of printing discs, tweaking things to work on a mac and even rewriting in-game script (tutorials and such) and the booklets for mac users would not really be cost effective.

reguardless apple isnt really made for gaming, they are overpriced machines that at one time did a few things better than a pc but pc has caught up and surpassed apple in many ways so you have an overpriced, mid-quality pc mostly that still cant run everything it should. Its more a status thing at this point. Even indesign, photoshop, autocad and what not run better for me on my pc and hp laptop than on my apple with fewer problems, crashes and stops. Even the design dept at school scrapped all their macs for pc cause the pc performed better.

Cant tell that to the iCult tho, they will summon the ghost of Steve Jobs bring a blight upon your house

PC's didn't surpass macs, Apple decided to go backwards instead of forwards.