iMac musings
October 28th, 2007My dad is planning on buying me a new 24″ iMac as a graduation present in December and I’m beginning to get very excited about it. A lot of this probably has to do with the release of Leopard, since I know it’ll look and function even better on a newer system than on my dated PowerBook G4.
I can definitely see myself making the iMac my new primary computer. I’ve always been a PC guy when it came to getting actual work done, but that is looking to change. What I will still need my PC for is the occasional game of Counter-Strike, Team Fortress 2, or whatever else the fellas happen to be playing at the time. However, now that EA has signed on with Apple (and the fact that AAPL is gaining market share) it probably won’t be long before game developers start releasing Mac-compatible versions of their games.
In other news, my capstone project is trucking along, and I shouldn’t have a problem getting it finished in time for the November 26th presentation. In the end it will be functional, and time will determine how feature-rich it becomes.
October 29th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
You do realize, of course, that you could always slap a hacked Win XP install on that iMac and play them games to your heart’s content… The 128 MB video card should be plenty capable, eh?
October 29th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Well, I fully intend to use Boot Camp to install my legal copy of Windows XP Professional SP2 (graciously given to us computer science majors for no charge by Truman) just in case I need to boot into it from time to time. I’m curious to see how well games will run… I’ve become fairly spoiled with the desktop system I built for myself.
Oh, and the iMac has 256 MB video card. I’m getting the high-end 24″.
October 31st, 2007 at 8:51 pm
I believe I read something in the Penny Arcade news about Intel Macs running games (specifically WoW) faster than PCs did, but for reasons Tycho and Gabe couldn’t articulate. Do with this what you will.
I drank an entire bottle of wine tonight! And didn’t get sick! Yet!!