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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.


Posted by: Goob0t

Posted by: DusK
Posted by: Neanderthal 487
Mid-2011 iMacs can run Battlefield 3 on decent settings.

Yet cost significantly more than custom-built PCs that can run the game at max settings. Yay Mac!


My mac runs halo 2 vista 20 better than my friends pc and it is 2 years newer than my mac. AND i run it at halo 2's max resolution. You need to stop hatting, macs would be able to run it no problem, and due to the fact that all of osx is built for the hardware it runs on specifically that makes everything run twice as fast than a pc with the same hardware and allows software to run on your machine so much more better.

You really shouldn't be posting about stuff you know nothing about, kiddo. We have enough of that here with Ben.

  • 12.26.2011 10:47 PM PDT
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what is this halo you speak of?

Common facts, i don't know how that's nothing i know about since that is the whole reason why apple devices generally run much better than another machines running a different os but same hardware.

[Edited on 01.07.2012 1:26 PM PST]

  • 01.07.2012 1:26 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

You REALLY should stop posting about stuff you don't know anything about.

I could seriously write an essay about how crap Macs are compared to custom-built Windows machines, but I'll save that for another time. I really don't feel like typing that much stuff regarding something you're not going to be able to understand.

[Edited on 01.07.2012 3:31 PM PST]

  • 01.07.2012 3:30 PM PDT
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"A life lived for others is the only life worth living" - Albert Einstein

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You know what really kills me? Some guy I was talking to the other day was trying to tell me the reason he doesn't own a gaming PC is due to how much they cost. He owns a $2,000 Mac... I wanted to punch him...

A little off-topic, but whatever.

  • 01.07.2012 6:06 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: Dr Syx
You know what really kills me? Some guy I was talking to the other day was trying to tell me the reason he doesn't own a gaming PC is due to how much they cost. He owns a $2,000 Mac... I wanted to punch him...

I love that one. That's actually the most common "hurr durr I went with Mac instead of PC because" reason I hear.

  • 01.07.2012 7:19 PM PDT
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what is this halo you speak of?


Posted by: DusK
You REALLY should stop posting about stuff you don't know anything about.


Haha, they built it for the pc first and did a shtty port for the mac 3 years later, that proves a lot, XD

[Edited on 01.08.2012 8:03 PM PST]

  • 01.08.2012 8:01 PM PDT
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Halo 1&2 PC forum's resident OC ReMixer. Like rockified and metalized video game music? Subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: Goob0t

Posted by: DusK
You REALLY should stop posting about stuff you don't know anything about.


Haha, they built it for the pc first and did a shtty port for the mac, that proves a lot, XD

And you REALLY think H2 would be any different?

Man, people are stupid these days.

  • 01.08.2012 8:03 PM PDT
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what is this halo you speak of?

Because one game from an entirely different group of people sets an example for another? You're smart.

[Edited on 01.08.2012 8:06 PM PST]

  • 01.08.2012 8:05 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: Goob0t
Because one game from an entirely different group of people sets an example for another? You're smart.

Should I post more examples, then?

I know. Let's use the last Halo game to find its way to a Mac. I wasn't able to find any performance comparisons on same or similar hardware, but I did find this:

Halo Mac system requirements:
Macintosh computer with 800 MHz G4/G5 or faster processor
Mac OS X 10.2.8 or higher
256MB RAM
32MB Video Card (GeForce 2MX/ATI 7500 or better)
1.4GB hard disk space
Internet or LAN connection required for online play

Halo PC system requirements
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows Second Edition, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me), Microsoft Windows 2000, or Microsoft Windows XP.
Computer/Processor: 733 megahertz (MHz) processor.
DirectX: DirectX® 9.0 or later. (DirectX 9.0b is installed by Halo.)
Memory: 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM.
Hard Disk: 1.2 gigabytes (GB) of free hard disk space.
Video card: 32 MB with 3D Transform and Lighting capable.
CD: 8X.
Sound: Sound card, speakers, or headphones with multiplayer play.
*56.6 Kilobytes per second (KBps) modem or 10 MB network adapter. Multiplayer servers require broadband to run a server.
*Additionally, you must have an Internet Service provider (ISP) or a Local Area Network (LAN), if you want to play multi-player games.

Notice how the Mac requirements to run that game are higher. Hell, double the RAM requirement? I thought Mac OSX was supposed to be "lean."

Your argument's falling apart, Mac fanboy. Better pick it up quick and counter my stuff or nobody's gonna take you seriously. Not like anyone who doesn't know what they're talking about should. :)

  • 01.08.2012 8:12 PM PDT
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what is this halo you speak of?

What's that? Another port? And good job, a game from 2001/3. Im glad you got some great examples.

  • 01.08.2012 8:17 PM PDT
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what is this halo you speak of?

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/tests/4258 725

PS, im not a mac fanboi, I own both, i just find it pathetic that you bash it just cause you're a windows fanboi.

[Edited on 01.08.2012 8:26 PM PST]

  • 01.08.2012 8:23 PM PDT
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Halo 1&2 PC forum's resident OC ReMixer. Like rockified and metalized video game music? Subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: Goob0t
What's that? Another port? And good job, a game from 2001/3. Im glad you got some great examples.

Are you really insinuating that H2, which you said "would run better on your Mac" than a comparable PC, wouldn't be a port?

Are you retarded?

Also, your link has the Mac using faster hardware and going up against a very hindered PC design, so it's irrelevant. If you want a real value comparison, pit my $1,000 custom build against a $2,500 stock Mac Pro. Spoiler alert: My PC freakin' creams it in every single way.

  • 01.08.2012 8:30 PM PDT
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what is this halo you speak of?


Posted by: DusK
Posted by: Goob0t
What's that? Another port? And good job, a game from 2001/3. Im glad you got some great examples.

Are you really insinuating that H2, which you said "would run better on your Mac" than a comparable PC, wouldn't be a port?



Never said "would" said did. I boot camped win 7 onto my mac to try out the game. And no, i would think they would have a clean port form the xbox version like it should be, glad you can make such smart assumptions and then call someone retarded, pretty hilarious actually. And what is even more hilarious is that you care if a game that you don't even think is good is on another operating system and isn't exclusive to your own, that isn't elitist at all.

  • 01.10.2012 11:45 PM PDT
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Halo 1&2 PC forum's resident OC ReMixer. Like rockified and metalized video game music? Subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

There's nothing elitist about being correct and disapproving of the spread of misinformation.

If the game ran faster on your Mac boot camped into Windows 7 than your friend's PC, that simply means you have better specs than him or kept that Win7 installation cleaner. Not to mention you took OSX out of the picture completely when you did that, so all arguments you made in favor of that OS being "better" are now moot, namely this crap you pulled out of your ass:

all of osx is built for the hardware it runs on specifically that makes everything run twice as fast than a pc with the same hardware

Paying over twice as much for your hardware as someone else doesn't miraculously make it faster. Unless you're Insane Clown Posse. MIRACLES

Also, if you're not an Apple fanboy, why is your Twitter account like 90% posts about Apple? You really need to loosen that lip-grip on Jobs' tool before insisting you're unbiased on this subject, bro.

  • 01.11.2012 1:25 AM PDT

Mac OS is not built specifically for the hardware it runs on.

It's the same as any other Intel-based operating system.

Get over it.

I'd like to make that into a haiku.

  • 01.11.2012 4:07 AM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Mac does not go faster.
Windows still beats it for games.
You, get over it.

  • 01.11.2012 12:02 PM PDT


Posted by: DusK
Mac does not go faster.
Windows still beats it for games.
You, get over it.


Although the G5 processor was the most amazing computer of the time.

I think it was the switch to Intel that really did it in.

  • 01.11.2012 12:52 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

I think it was charging over double the price for the same hardware and making it pretty much non-upgradable that really did it in.

  • 01.11.2012 2:14 PM PDT


Posted by: DusK
I think it was charging over double the price for the same hardware and making it pretty much non-upgradable that really did it in.


It actually wasn't the same hardware, though. PowerPC processors are a much different architecture than Intel. The basic way it processes programs is different. It's not like AMD and Intel, PowerPC really is different.

But it still did not warrant such a ridiculous price tag, yes.

  • 01.11.2012 4:08 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

So if it was so much better, wazzup wit dis?

In 2005 Apple announced they would no longer use PowerPC processors in their Apple Macintosh computers, favoring Intel produced processors instead, citing the performance limitations of the chip for future personal computer hardware specifically related to heat generation and energy usage, as well as the inability of IBM to move the 970 (PowerPC G5) processor to the 3 GHz range.

Must have been a lot of angry Macheads that day. Apple pooled a lot of effort into pushing that whole "Megahertz Myth" ideology, then switched because the 970s couldn't reach over 3GHz. I guess it just goes to show that it doesn't matter what architecture you use, it'll always get to a point where clock speed will make a difference.

  • 01.11.2012 5:55 PM PDT


Posted by: DusK
So if it was so much better, wazzup wit dis?

In 2005 Apple announced they would no longer use PowerPC processors in their Apple Macintosh computers, favoring Intel produced processors instead, citing the performance limitations of the chip for future personal computer hardware specifically related to heat generation and energy usage, as well as the inability of IBM to move the 970 (PowerPC G5) processor to the 3 GHz range.

Must have been a lot of angry Macheads that day. Apple pooled a lot of effort into pushing that whole "Megahertz Myth" ideology, then switched because the 970s couldn't reach over 3GHz. I guess it just goes to show that it doesn't matter what architecture you use, it'll always get to a point where clock speed will make a difference.


The real issue that caused them to switch over was that IBM always took too long to develop the next iteration of the CPU. Oh, and they never quite solved their problems with heat. Their dedication towards silent computers have ever been a plague. Even liquid cooling ended up failing horribly when they experimented with it. Late G5's used it, and it often suffered from coolant leakage.

As you could expect, this was a pretty big deal. And Apple largely ignored it, of course.

Less and less focus is directed towards desktop computers nowadays at Apple. The focus is ever upon what's really making them money, and I expect I don't even have to get into that.

  • 01.11.2012 6:27 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: Tempus Irae
Oh, and they never quite solved their problems with heat.

Yeah, one look at the 360 will tell you that.

It's a great architecture, more of a reason to dislike Apple for dropping it imo. I'm just finding it hilarious that they still think a 2.8GHz Quad Core with 3GB DDR3 RAM, a Radeon HD 5770 1GB, and 1TB 7200 RPM HDD is somehow worth $2,500. You'd have to be straight-up retarded to pay that much for such weak hardware.

  • 01.11.2012 7:15 PM PDT
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what is this halo you speak of?

Posted by: DusK
Also, if you're not an Apple fanboy, why is your Twitter account like 90% posts about Apple? You really need to loosen that lip-grip on Jobs' tool before insisting you're unbiased on this subject, bro.


Whooo!!!11!111 I like to keep up to date on when there is a jailbreak available for my phone!!1111!1 And if you didn't see, i follow a number of tech/Microsoft people too. You weren't looking and ignoring a huge part of it at all.



Posted by: Tempus Irae
Mac OS is not built specifically for the hardware it runs on.

It's the same as any other Intel-based operating system.

Get over it.



Nope, if you didn't realize, the whole reason apple keeps it so they only can make Mac OSX machines is so they can build the os for their machines pacifically.

[Edited on 01.11.2012 8:33 PM PST]

  • 01.11.2012 8:29 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Dude, you're an idiot. The ONLY difference between PC hardware and its Mac equivalent is the Mac parts are hindered by non-upgradability. A Radeon HD 5770 is a Radeon HD 5770. A 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Processor is a 2.8GHz quad-core Intel processor. You paying over double what we do doesn't make it special in any way whatsoever.

[Edited on 01.11.2012 8:38 PM PST]

  • 01.11.2012 8:36 PM PDT
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what is this halo you speak of?

Yes mac's are sooo much worse for more money.

pc

mac

And again with idiot/retard in your comment? LOL, you aren't insecure.

[Edited on 01.11.2012 8:46 PM PST]

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