New Laptop

[Brian Lesser]

Originally Posted by Michael Hill

He said he wanted to play games. You aren't going to be able to play many games at all with an Apple...Sorry to all you Mac fanboys, but I hate the things for gaming. So hard to customize your own system...I make fun of Austin Butler all the time on this one. He got an iBook I believe and the only game he can play on there is a mario-like game with the Linux penguin. I was like...hmm...Apple users have to resort to other operating system's games, how sad. I also joke with him and ask "You type any serious documents on that thing lately?" So...bottom line is don't get Apple, it's not worth it for gaming. (BTW, what would you do about games that required a right click? LOL) I got a pretty sweet Gateway laptop at Best Buy for about 1200. It's got an AMD64 3200+ processor, 80 GB HDD, and an ATI Mobility RADEON 9600. It can play Far Cry pretty well.

I never said anything about being a Mac fanboy. A lot of us actually have valid reasons for switching to Macs...

As far as games go, there is a very good list of games available for Macs. Such examples include...

Doom 3
Halo
Battlefield 1942
Rise of Nations
Star Wars: Battlefront
Neverwinter Nights (and its assorment of expansions)
Age of Mythology
Baulder's Gate
Black and White
Call of Duty
Medal of Honor and all the bloody expansions
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield

Then, for kicks, lets just add Warcraft II, Warcraft III, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Diablo II, and Starcraft. Notice that I didn't even mention their expansions yet ;D

Personally, I'm glad that a company, such as Aspyr, exists. They have helped release a lot of popular games (such as Doom 3 and Star Wars: Battlefront) on the Mac.

And as far as Right-clicking goes...

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPL...lm=MA086LL%2FA

Hope that helps...