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More games for Macintosh!

GbakosGbakos Member Posts: 7
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I want games that are compatiable with mac and the other ones. I see all these cool games and i cant play them because im on a mac. Mac's are good anyway because they dont crash or freeze. They dont get viruses either. Its like heaven. But we need more games for us Mac users out here.

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  • DarkchronicDarkchronic Member Posts: 1,088
    Well, it seems us Mac gamers are getting more representation these days, and with Boot Camp and an Intel Mac you can play *most* PC games.

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  • MarleVVLLMarleVVLL Member UncommonPosts: 907
    A few things to remember:

    Mac's DO freeze and crash, and when they do, you have to ship it in for them to fix and that costs you MONEY!
    When PC's crash, you re-start, maybe check a few things in the BIOS, and you good to go. Free.

    Mac's DO get virsuses.


    MMO migrant.

  • DarkchronicDarkchronic Member Posts: 1,088

    Originally posted by MarleVVLL
    A few things to remember:

    Mac's DO freeze and crash, and when they do, you have to ship it in for them to fix and that costs you MONEY!
    When PC's crash, you re-start, maybe check a few things in the BIOS, and you good to go. Free.

    Mac's DO get virsuses.



    I've been using Macs for about 4 years, with both OS 9 and OSX, and I've never had a virus.

    And your bit about shipping it in is pure bollocks, when, (if) your Mac crashes, you press the 'restart' button, nothing more.


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  • Vertex1980Vertex1980 Member Posts: 951

    PC > Mac.

    PC might have more virues, but at least it's a ton better in the gaming department, sound department, video department...

    Seems like Macs are only good for... well, nothing.

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  • EnsnaredEnsnared Member UncommonPosts: 71

    Originally posted by Darkchronic

    Originally posted by MarleVVLL
    Mac's DO get virsuses.



    I've been using Macs for about 4 years, with both OS 9 and OSX, and I've never had a virus.


    I've been
    using PC's for about 10 years, with MS-DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11, 95,
    95 OSR2, 98, 98SE, 2000 and XP,
    RedHat Linux 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0 and 9, Fedora Core 1, 2 and 3, and Ubuntu 5.04, 5.10 and 6.06, and I've
    never had a virus.

    Doesn't really prove anything though, does it?
  • SigneSigne Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 2,524
    You're right,  Ensnared.  At the moment, we have three PCs, four Macs (including one of the new ones with the intel processor so you can play any game you like) and a couple of Linux boxes, plus I have a Linux partition on my PC.  One of the PCs and two of the Macs are laptops.  Our Macs rarely suffer from freezes and I've never had to send one out for repair because of it.  That's just daft.  My PCs crash much, much more and they wear out faster (but we tend to buy cheapo PCs).  I have only ever had a virus on PCs, never on Macs or Linux boxes since the olden days.  You don't need to know how olden my days are! 

    I'm not obsessed... we have all this stuff because of my husband's work.  Also, the only viruses, except one, have been on PCs we play games on and browse frivilous gaming websites.  We've never had a virus on any machine, including PCs, that we use for work only, even though they're all online.

    To be honest, I think we've only had a problem two or three times in the past 15 years or so, and the virus' were pretty easy to get rid of.

    It's simply a matter of preference when it comes to Macs these days, anyway, now that they come in Intel flavour.


  • DeletedAcctDeletedAcct Member Posts: 883

    Don't worry. Macs will be getting more viruses now. See, it's easy to feel secure when you represent such an insignificant portion of a community (PC vs. Mac). Now that Jobs has finally realized that the only way for the Mac to even compete is to allow users to run Windows on Mac hardware ( something I believe an idio.., I mean Jobs said would never be the case, proving why Macs had and still have such a small portion of the market) which means the virus writers won't have to write obscure code to attack that small portion of computer users out there with Macs. People didn't attack PCs because they were more vulnerable. They attacked PCs because it was the only way to attack 95% of the worlds computer users at once. So, enjoy your Macs. I'll stick to my PC since I know how to avoid and get rid of viruses. You guys are about to learn


  • hadzhadz Member Posts: 712

    Similar to Ensnared...

    I've been using PCs since 1989 (and since '97 on the "virus ridden" internet...hehe) with all manner of operating systems.

    And I've NEVER HAD a virus either. I didn't even use an antivirus program until a couple of years ago.

  • BuZZKilgoreBuZZKilgore Member Posts: 525
    I've had tons of viruses and crashes (probably from all the stuff I download from newsgroups) but I always manage to get my PC back into shape with not much problems. Once MACs become more mainstream there will be a lot more viruses written for them, it's just a matter of time.
  • SigneSigne Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 2,524

    Originally posted by Zorvan

    Don't worry. Macs will be getting more viruses now. See, it's easy to feel secure when you represent such an insignificant portion of a community (PC vs. Mac). Now that Jobs has finally realized that the only way for the Mac to even compete is to allow users to run Windows on Mac hardware ( something I believe an idio.., I mean Jobs said would never be the case, proving why Macs had and still have such a small portion of the market) which means the virus writers won't have to write obscure code to attack that small portion of computer users out there with Macs. People didn't attack PCs because they were more vulnerable. They attacked PCs because it was the only way to attack 95% of the worlds computer users at once. So, enjoy your Macs. I'll stick to my PC since I know how to avoid and get rid of viruses. You guys are about to learn



    I think we'll be okay.  I'm not sure there is anything left to learn about virus' until someone starts writing better ones, anyway.  They are woefully ineffective, for the most part.  I checked with my husband and we've had exactly two virus' on the same PC, ever.  Unfortunately, it was the one my nephew was dl'ing... err... naughty things on. 

    My husband has worked in computers for well over 20 years and has been a network security engineer for the last 12 or 13 so he would poke me in the eye if I started worrying about that now... and I hate it when he pokes me in the eye!  I'm happy with our Macs and okay with our PCs.  Having a PC with an intel processor seems to be the best of both worlds.  I can play games and leave windows behind when I'm done... and it's very, very quick, too.  What's not to like?
  • NadrilNadril Member Posts: 1,276

    Originally posted by Gbakos
    I want games that are compatiable with mac and the other ones. I see all these cool games and i cant play them because im on a mac. Mac's are good anyway because they dont crash or freeze. They dont get viruses either. Its like heaven. But we need more games for us Mac users out here.
    They don't get virus's because no one makes virus's for them.

    >_>.
  • zensaberzensaber Member UncommonPosts: 787
    their are no viruses with linux either, i will admit i only use windows for gaming as soon as they start releasing games more for the other oses i'm going to tuff it out but when that day comes i'm going to burn all my windows disks.
  • DeletedAcctDeletedAcct Member Posts: 883

    Originally posted by Signe

    Originally posted by Zorvan

    Don't worry. Macs will be getting more viruses now. See, it's easy to feel secure when you represent such an insignificant portion of a community (PC vs. Mac). Now that Jobs has finally realized that the only way for the Mac to even compete is to allow users to run Windows on Mac hardware ( something I believe an idio.., I mean Jobs said would never be the case, proving why Macs had and still have such a small portion of the market) which means the virus writers won't have to write obscure code to attack that small portion of computer users out there with Macs. People didn't attack PCs because they were more vulnerable. They attacked PCs because it was the only way to attack 95% of the worlds computer users at once. So, enjoy your Macs. I'll stick to my PC since I know how to avoid and get rid of viruses. You guys are about to learn



    I think we'll be okay.  I'm not sure there is anything left to learn about virus' until someone starts writing better ones, anyway.  They are woefully ineffective, for the most part.  I checked with my husband and we've had exactly two virus' on the same PC, ever.  Unfortunately, it was the one my nephew was dl'ing... err... naughty things on. 

    My husband has worked in computers for well over 20 years and has been a network security engineer for the last 12 or 13 so he would poke me in the eye if I started worrying about that now... and I hate it when he pokes me in the eye!  I'm happy with our Macs and okay with our PCs.  Having a PC with an intel processor seems to be the best of both worlds.  I can play games and leave windows behind when I'm done... and it's very, very quick, too.  What's not to like?

    Actually, I'm sure you guys will be fine, Signe I was aiming more at the die-hard Mac users who tend to get a little elitist in thinking that they are invulnerable just cause they run Macs only, especially the ones who have never used a PC before.
  • SigneSigne Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 2,524
    I'm stocking up on eye drops.  Just... in... case....

  • GbakosGbakos Member Posts: 7
    Well i didnt mean to start an argument between windows and mac but does anyone have a mac that can boot on windows? how does that run if you do? I have a G-5 and its really fast but unforutnatly Jobs didnt announce that the intel chips will be put in them until a week after we bough it. sucks..
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