Morrigan

How about considering the fact that Apple's encroaching major changes in not only hardware, but operating system and development environment (xcode and universal binaries) might be a major hurdle for developers? Cut some slack, anyone releasing software before the macintels ship may end up in patch hell and have a lot of wasted effort on their hands.

he's just correcting the spelling of duel vs dual

The machines apple seeded to developers use an intel onboard graphics chipset. I'll put money on those being a standard chipset, not something Intel put together special for apple. In fact, if I can swing it I'll put Mechwarrior 4 on one of those machines and see how it runs. Of course this is not the kind of video system I want to see in the macintels, but if this all-in-one intel solution works now, why would apple regress back to something proprietary rather than just forge ahead with standard video cards? [ October 18, 2005, 04:51 PM: Message edited by: Morrigan ]

How does a Mac user buying the PC version of IL-2 or Rome:Total War hurt mac gaming? It does not, those titles are not coming to the mac so Aspyr and Destineer aren't losing sales... and my refraining from buying these pc titles doesn't benefit the mac gaming industry at all. That said, I guess I don't care much if the mac gaming industry dies. It brings too few titles too late, and when I'm playing a game I don't care what OS is installed, i can't see it. When i do tech writing or what have you, I use Mac OS X because that's my bag. But for games, each with their own user interface... why would I care?

That was probably OpenStep or Darwin for x86 he had installed or maybe a bootleg of something Apple had in-house. I'm not surprised it was slow since nothing in the OS would have been optimized for that chipset at that time. I doubt that will ever improve because Apple doesn't want people buying/stealing their OS and putting it on a $300 Dell, they make a boatload of money on hardware and will want to keep it that way. My company has a pair of Macintel boxes running here, 3.6GHz P4 in the G5 tower case. They run a dev version of Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4). The guy who uses them the most says the OS is plenty fast (boots and loads faster) compared to a G5. He's also made a second drive partition and installed WinXP on it. Boots and runs great with no problems. This behavior is likely to stay. While apple won't want their OS running on Dells, they certainly won't care if their premium priced hardware is used to run OS X and Windows in separate boot partitions. I for one will be buying a ton of old PC games I missed out on once I get my Macintel. Sure i'll buy Mac native games first, but some of those gems like IL-2 and Rome:Total War that never did make it to mac will finally be on mine... lurking in a WinXP gaming partition of course [ October 18, 2005, 10:22 AM: Message edited by: Morrigan ]