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#1 AAAGoobie11

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Hey I know PC's are the best for games and i have one for home but as a laptop i have a mac book. People are always puting down macs for being bad gaming computers, i understand that but what i want to know is

~Games like halo and age of empires III, will they run fine becasue they are built for macs or will they be slow or what.

* i am a n00b when it comes to knowing the tech specs and how things sould run and crap.

thanx

17 years ago

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#2 blazealot420

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I don't own a mac but if a game was made for both PC/Mac then it should work fine.

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#3 AAAGoobie11

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also, if halo is playable on a mac, does anyone even play online on it?

17 years ago

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#4 blazealot420

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There's not a ton of people playing last time I had it installed but there's probably enough to get a couple full games going.

17 years ago

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#5 Funkyhamster

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Halo on Mac? I thought it was made by Microsoft... and I know that for AOE3, you have to buy a separate version. Blizzard games are some of the only ones that have discs that are compatible with both OSes.

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#6 burnsniper

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Most games that you will find for Mac are written for older Mac technology based on PowerPC processors manufactured by IBM/Texas Instruments. New Macs such as your Macbook are based on x86 processors manufactured by Intel. While these Macs will run older software and games coded for PowerPC processors, they have to run them through the Rosetta emulation software (this is seemless to the user). Software and games can take a huge performance hit (I would think that games would perform poorly) while running through Rosetta. Newer Mac games that are written for Intel processors (called Universal Binary in Mac speak) should run okay on your Macbook as long as they don't require dedicated graphics acceleration (Macbooks have integrated graphics). On Intel based Macs you can run PC games natively if you use bootcamp and install Windows (must buy) on a second partition. Older PC games wil run alright on you Macbook with this method (newer games won't run because of the lack of a dedicated graphics card). I have a Macbook Pro that has a 2.33ghz Core 2 Duo processor, 2gb of ram, and a 256mb Ati X1600 graphics card and it runs new games like Supreme Commander very good on medium settings and slightly older games very good with all settings maxed out.

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