[MG] iMac Gaming card

[John Erdman]

Oh Dear! That's not good news at all!  I was going to wait till after 
XMas anyway for price drops and good deals. but the suggestion to wait 
till after MWSF is excellent.

Since I don't consider myself as a real hard core gamer but rather one 
who enjoys single player FPS's and strategy games I'm hoping that the 
"consumer grade" iMAC would probably be all right. Certainly it's got 
to be better than my current semi-antique AGP/400 with an 8500 video 
card. The G5 iMAC looks as if it will solve my need for improved 
portability but yet preserve most of my game playing ability. I just 
don't want to give up too much of future playability. Is that a 
reasonable assumption?

Thanks for your suggestion
John


On Nov 28, 2004, at 4:31, JL wrote:

> The video card on the new imacs, is really bottom-of-the-barrel
> with no option to upgrade.  Is this a problem?  Certainly the
> games won't look as nice as they could, but since the imac is
> supposed to be the consumer model it's quite conceivable that
> game makers would dumb-down their games to suit the 32meg vid
> cards (as Blizzard did with WoW) in order to maximize their
> audience.
>
> As for what you should do, that's up to you.  If my budget
> could afford a new mac right now, I would not be buying.  At
> the least I would be waiting until after MWSF in early
> January, to see what will be announced.  Perhaps there will
> be something more to my liking.
>