I've been seriously considering getting a Mac, since I just recently found out that GM is compatible with it, and that aside from making games in Game Maker, all I do is type documents and edit videos. Does anyone else here in the community use a Mac? I've always enjoyed their design but have avoided getting one because I thought that Mac's couldn't run GM, and that would have destroyed me.
…Now I wonder if Google Chrome is Mac compatible…Just checked, yes it is.Now I really want one. Buy me an iMac 27", 64D!As always I love you guys.Feel free to argue Macs vs. PC's below, if you like. I'm a fan of both :)
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I wonder what would happen if you partitioned Mac and Windows on the same machine.You end up using windows. My friend got a macbook air and partitioned it with Windows evenly, but over time he reduced Mac's partition more and more till eventually he would only open it for garage band.
To the contrary, my XP partition on my macbook is largely unused. There are very few things I do that are windows only, at the moment.
Of course, I only have a macbook because I got it half off. My next laptop will be whatever suits my needs at the best price with the best quality.Okay.
MACS: hardware less likely to fail, less to worry about, simple to get started, more expensivePCS: more compatible, more customizable(both software/hardware), much cheaperSo i mean, if you have the money and dont care about the cons, (or dont know what a computer is), then the answer is pretty clear.@kabob799: hmmmmm i wouldnt know since i havent been around macs much. but regardless you should have good service with apple since they want a good image for their products.
I got a mac perhaps a year and a half ago. Aside from steam games, there's nothing I've missed.
I don't have one definitive reason for choosing a mac, but it was a combination of varying factors (wanted to develop iPhone apps, was looking into using Unity3D for game development which supports mac/windows etc, was fed up with windows).I set up a dual boot with windows 7 (it is very easy to do) so that I can play steam games. As I'm sure you're aware, Valve have ported some of their games to OSX, but in all honesty they do not play anywhere near as well as they do on windows.If you do get a mac, I'd recommend that you check out the refurbished section to get some good bargains. It's also cheaper to buy a mac with a small hard drive, and then buy your own and swap it in.As for game maker for mac, I've not tried it myself since the early alpha builds, but it does look promising. If not, you've always got Unity3D and Enigma!For the record, I have a 15.4" MacBook Pro which I got refurbished and upgraded the hard drive myself. I also intend to upgrade the RAM soon, which is easy for me to do since I got the slightly older model which isn't a unibody design.Macs are pretty, thus they cost a little bit more. Also, Macs are pretty, so they have better resale value.
In the end, it's just personal preference. Just about anything you can do on a PC, you can do on a Mac, and vice versa. So if you like OSX, I don't see why not to get a Mac.For the price, you could get a PC with better specs, but I doubt you'll be dissatisfied with your Mac. Especially if you aren't planning to do heavy gaming. Though you certainly could run modern games at playable framerates with Boot Camp on an iMac if you really wanted to.Don't get a mac, Every piece of it is overpriced from what you can get from any decent on-line computer parts retailer. It would be cheaper to custom build a desktop and install OSX on it. You would get all the features plus it would be cheaper. YOu could even boot-camp windows on it as well (or parallels or whatever).
You really are just paying for a name.