Sexy New iMac

pcs are more powerful than macs.period. shakmaster13

Nice iMac. Lets not make this a mac vs pc thread he asked about games.

I would suggest that you drop whatever you are doing right now, go to your nearest retail store, and get THE ORANGE BOX! You will not be disappointed, both in the quality and quantity of games. Seriously, right NOW.

[QUOTE="Ninja_Dog"][QUOTE="ND4Life"]

I didn't mean to start a flame war with my post. Getting back to my original question - so is Half Life 2 pretty much what I'm looking for as far as depth of the modding community?

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It's not your fault. Flame wars are inevitable here

I would definatly get the orange box. All of those games have a dedicated community.

I would also get the original half life. (not halflife source) It has one of the most extensive mod community i have seen. Great mods for half life include Sven Co op and Natural Selection.

You may have talked me into re-installing the orginal Halflife... assuming it will run on Vista... That will be an interesting experiment....

Good point, TC if you have not played the original Halflife get that also, its $10. It's a little old now but still amazing. After you finish that go on to Halflife 2 and its episodes(included in the orange box). And when you want a break from HL play Portal and Team Fortess 2.

And again Leper shows his lacking abilitys. Please keep posting, It is giving me a laugh :)MrUnSavory1

I like how you tryed to look smart with that post:/ even thoe I think you are wroung anyway:p

Shows what you know Lepper. Actually, Macs are the most powerful computers. They have much more power then Windows based PC's and that is why they are used in the graphics industry. They are also used in marketing departments that create circulars and other graphical media. And before you bash me I am a PC user not a Mac user and have been in the computer industry for over 25 years. It is known through out the computer field that macs are more powerful then PC's and always have been. The only reason PC's ever even survived is because Bill Gates ripped off the Mac operating system and there has always been more software support for PC's then Mac's. When you think about it as gamers it is sad we are not all on Mac's as our games would probably be much more advanced then they are now.MrUnSavory1

all this is soo true and yet i have no understanding of why they made all the games for pc im a pc user in the process of switching to a nice new shiny macbook pro but it doesnt make sense but i guess thats why apple made boot camp for leopard so that ya can run the other stuff on it

Macs are not more powerful, they have the same hardware, shows what you know, and the kicker is you can get a PC as powerful for less. Macs are proprietary, and MAC os stoles from OS's before it, that is the OS industry and irrelevant. Saying macs are more powerful is the rambling of a mac fanatic. How are they? They sue the same GPU's and CPU's? If Mleper-messiahs

you didnt even fully read his post did you he said he wasnt a mac user and indeed a pc user and your calling him a rambling mac fanatic? your really failing to show your intelligencein your posts

also no viruses .......... enough said

Why are people so fixated on the price? It's not as overpriced as you may think, anyways. Don't forget it comes with a drool-worthy 24" uber-flatscreen monitor with a built in webcam, and a huge software suite. musicalmac

how can you not see that that is expensive?

And really why would I need a monitor that big? unless im playing video games (which I can't do much on Mac with video games unless I use bootcamp).

Also you can't upgrade it:/

[QUOTE="leper-messiahs"]Macs are not more powerful, they have the same hardware, shows what you know, and the kicker is you can get a PC as powerful for less. Macs are proprietary, and MAC os stoles from OS's before it, that is the OS industry and irrelevant. Saying macs are more powerful is the rambling of a mac fanatic. How are they? They sue the same GPU's and CPU's? If Marmyman455

you didnt even fully read his post did you he said he wasnt a mac user and indeed a pc user and your calling him a rambling mac fanatic? your really failing to show your intelligencein your posts

also no viruses .......... enough said

their are viruses>_>

Mac isn't as popular as PC so their aren't many people createing viruses for the thing:)

Macs are not more powerful, they have the same hardware, shows what you know, and the kicker is you can get a PC as powerful for less. Macs are proprietary, and MAC os stoles from OS's before it, that is the OS industry and irrelevant. Saying macs are more powerful is the rambling of a mac fanatic. How are they? They sue the same GPU's and CPU's? If Mleper-messiahs

If you insist on flamming in this thread...Please go to System Wars, not here ! ....:(

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The amount of software that works and comes with MAC still pales in comparison to Windows, and even with those features that price is assinine, that is one of the reasons macs are a niche, very small market.

musicalmac

WOW, what bull. Macs make up less then 5% of the market, Windows PC DOMINATE, post proof with links or don't bother posting. That is surely a NICHE market, and PC sales still Dwarf Macs my a huge margin. No, Mac DOES NOT work with NEAR the software that runs on windows, anyone who knows squat about PC's knows this, Windows runs virtually anything, there is a lot of siftware that simply won't run on macs at all, games being just one example. Please.

http://www.systemshootouts.org/mac_sales.html

Don't let facts get in the way, MACS are a very small niche market that is DWARFED by Windows PC's, and they should be with retarded costs, and dumb proprietary hardware that restricts upgrades and uses choice. Apple has LESS market share now then it did around 1999-2000.

no doubt it's a nice computer, but part of the reason why I would build a pc is for the experience, I just love buildin' em. and I dont have the money to dish out for a nice macDopemonk736

I actually would love to build a computer if I had the time or the know how. I'm just too afraid that I would put the whole thing together and then install windows and have to spend hours trying to figure out why I keep getting all these error messages - which was my first experience with trying to install Windows Vista 64 on my iMac. I just gave up and bought Windows XP.

[QUOTE="shakmaster13"]pcs are more powerful than macs.period. Teufelhuhn

yeah back in 2000. This is 2008. You can get a Q6600, 3gig 667, 8600gt PC for $400.