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Subject: Switched... now what?
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Here's a fairly simple question... I own a copy of Halo for the PC, and love it. However, I no longer have a PC: I made the switch to a Mac. If I want to keep playing Halo, do I really need to go out and buy a new copy of Halo? Does Bungie offer any sort of trade-in deal? I'd really rather not have to spend another $30 just to keep playing the same game.

  • 02.04.2006 3:11 PM PDT
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You just spent $1,500+ on a Mac and now you're hesitant to spend a few bucks on a game? ;)

That being said, I can understand you wanting to save the $30 if you can. :)

But there's no trade-in deal. You need to go out and buy a new copy, unfortunately. Check Ebay if you only want to spend a few dollars. Or who knows... maybe you can work out a deal with some game store that happens to carry a copy of Halo Mac AND accepts trade-ins.

  • 02.04.2006 3:42 PM PDT

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$24 bucks on eBay including shipping. Sell your PC copy.

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[Edited on 2/4/2006]

  • 02.04.2006 10:07 PM PDT
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Say what, it costs $30 for a mac version of Halo. Your joking. Last I personally saw the price tag was $10. I am buying that new Imac, sigh, it doesnt support halo at all.

  • 02.05.2006 9:14 AM PDT

Don't drink to excess– You might shoot at tax-collectors... and miss

Computer: Power Mac G5 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (2.2) Number Of CPUs: 2 CPU Speed: 1.8 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 1.25 GB Bus Speed: 900 MHz

ATi Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition
Display Type: LCD Resolution: 1680 x 1050 Depth: 32-bit Color

I'd be surprised if MacSoft didn't come up with an update that will let it run on the new Intel processor Macs.

$24 including shipping was the best I saw on eBay. When you consider that you can spend $7-8 on a glossy magazine that will amuse you for a bus ride, $30 for Halo is dirt cheap entertainment.

Here's a link to their support page.
http://www.macsoftgames.com/products/halo/support/MacSoft-Hal o-Support.html#Frequently

  • 02.05.2006 8:49 PM PDT

There's also a good chance that the h4xx0rz will get Windows up and running on the intel Macs within a few months. It's really just a matter of time before you'll be able to run Windows apps natively on your Mac.

Of course, you'd then have to shell out for Windows, which costs a darn sight more than Halo for Mac.

  • 02.06.2006 6:01 AM PDT
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isnt loading windows on a new mac a waste of time and money? the macs are overpriced to begin with... and you could get a way better pc for the same price as one of those macs. if youre gonna use windows anyway just build a better pc...

  • 02.06.2006 12:35 PM PDT
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macs use chips that can process six instructions per clock cycle. The best PC processors can't do much better than 2. That being said, macs outperform PCs in many areas. I don't really think you'll see windows running natively on a lot of macs. Most folks with those programming skills seem to prefer linux.

  • 02.06.2006 12:40 PM PDT
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we are talking about the new intel macs that use a intel processor that will also be used in pcs (the intel core duo is mentioned on intels site as part of centrino tech) so it must be compatible with windows. as for the rest of the mac, ie. bios, gpu, etc. we will see.

  • 02.06.2006 12:47 PM PDT
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Yes yes, that's all true... but my computer has a G4, not an Intel chip, so dual-booting simply is not an option. Looks like I'll just have to shell out the cash... (PS: I only spent $800 on my brand spanking new iBook)

  • 02.06.2006 8:58 PM PDT
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Hence the use of the word natively. I didn't mean to imply that the processor was incompatible with windows, I merely suggested that you wouldn't see it very often.


Can these Intel-based Macs run Windows?

Ask people from Apple this question, and they’ll do one of two things: shrug, or plug their ears and pretend they can’t hear you. Basically, Apple’s official policy is that if someone wants to figure out how to run Windows on a Mac, they can go ahead and do it, but Apple doesn’t want to know about it.

One interesting quirk of these new Intel-based Macs is that, unlike the developer test systems released last summer, these systems use Intel’s Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) instead of the tried-and-true BIOS that classic PCs use. Windows XP doesn’t actually support EFI, although the forthcoming Windows Vista will.

So the question is, how will people get Windows to run on the Mac? We’re sure someone much smarter than us will figure it out. Whether you’ll be able to re-boot into Windows or run it in some sort of compatibility box—hello, Virtual PC!—remains to be seen.


Taken from macworld

To clarify - Virtual PC is a mac-based Windows emulator and it suffers the same fate of every emulator - it is immensely slower than the real thing. While it is anticipated that such programs would become much more efficient in Intel-based macs, an emulator is not to be confused with a native OS.

Another reference:
PCWorld

The last article talks about Linux as well, which is actually already running natively on PowerPC Macs. That and the fact that Linux is open source would give Linux a push. Although Windows Vista will use EFI, Microsoft has not announced plan to develop a native OS for Intel-based macs (yet...), however, it has said that if Mac wants to support windows, it's more than welcome to (some compromise, eh?). Mac hasn't made any official response to that. And it doesn't look like they're planning to.

So, what this means is that Linux will bend to accomodate Intel-based Macs, but Microsoft bows to no one.

Does that mean that you won't see windows on a Mac? If you look hard enough, but I don't personally know any programmers that would spend the time trying to make windows work on a mac when (s)he could be doing the same with Linux. That doesn't mean they don't exist (maybe I should get out more - ya know - go to more porgramming conventions...)

I could be wrong. It happens every once-in-a-blue-moon-on-a-leap-day.

  • 02.06.2006 9:03 PM PDT