[X4U] Implications of Boot Camp

Kunga Kunga at FutureMedia.org
Thu Apr 6 18:35:53 PDT 2006


I've read reports today from early Boot Camp Gamers that claim the 3- 
D Game performance is very good and others say it's great. One said a  
certain game did not recognize his MacBook Pro's native resolution  
but that he "could live with it".
-- 
Taylor

> Zane H. Healy said:
>
>> Another reason for buying Windows to put on a Mac should be  
>> obvious, games.
>> The downside of this, is that I expect this to pretty much kill  
>> the Mac
>> games market.  Don't be surprised if in the next 6-12 months there  
>> aren't
>> any new Mac games coming out.
>
On Apr 6, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Randy B.Singer wrote:

> Many high-end games require a specific video card.  Will these  
> games run
> at all on a Mac running BootCamp?  If they will, will the video
> performance be insufficient for most gamers' tastes?
>
> I've already heard from a couple of folks who have tried BootCamp, and
> they say that WinXP runs surprisingly fast compared to a real Win
> desktop, but I've yet to hear from anyone who has tried any high-end
> games on it yet.  I'd love to hear the results of any tests.



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