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serindeI have been steadily turning to the Candy-Colored Side since the beginning of my employ. (Including spending most of today frobbing new machines, including the 24" iWhack I was not actually supposed to get, whoopsie!.) Earlier this week I made the final test: I had Boot Camp put a Windows partition on the laptop, booted into it, installed CoH, and tried it out. Seems to work fine, modulo the annoyance of trying to play with a trackpad. (Ah. Mem.: try TeamSpeak.)
So the kool-aid is delicious and fruity, and it seems likely that the next time we need to upgrade something (which is probably soon), I will be switching to a Mac. Jury is still out between iMac and a Mac Pro. Obviously the Mac Pro would be much sweeter, but iMacs are considerably cheaper, and if they are butch enough to do what I need, I may restrain my greed as it is likely to be a generally expensive year.
So the kool-aid is delicious and fruity, and it seems likely that the next time we need to upgrade something (which is probably soon), I will be switching to a Mac. Jury is still out between iMac and a Mac Pro. Obviously the Mac Pro would be much sweeter, but iMacs are considerably cheaper, and if they are butch enough to do what I need, I may restrain my greed as it is likely to be a generally expensive year.
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Date: 2008-01-05 12:04 am (UTC)Assuming the laptop is a Macbook Pro? Those have nVidia 8600M-GT for a GPU which is pretty respectable. The iMacs are using the cheapest possible DirectX 10 ATI part. CoH is old enough it may not care, but check anyway.
Currently wishing I could afford an MBP. None of the desktop offerings are (a) affordable or (b) acceptable. Can have one or the other, but not both. Gah.
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Date: 2008-01-05 02:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-05 02:11 am (UTC)My problem is that while I mostly play WoW at the moment -- which runs native on OS X -- I'm keeping an eye on the new MMOs and may jump ship. So while an iMac will do OK for WoW, it probably won't be so great for anything more recent.