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    1. 09-03-2007 07:57 PM #1
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      Tell Me About Playing Games on a Macbook.

      So... I'm thinking about getting a macbook... but I want to be able to play a few games on the next computer I buy, (Rome Total War, Morrowind, Neverwinter Nights, maybe Guild Wars.. Old RPG games... etc) So.. if I buy a macbook.. will that be a possibility at all?
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    2. 09-03-2007 08:31 PM #2
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      Just to clarify...

      I'm not worried about the fact that games for windows don't run on a mac.. Because I can always partition the harddrive and install XP on it.. I'm mainly talking about the graphics card that is in a macbook.. because they won't let you customize with a better one.
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    3. 09-03-2007 09:41 PM #3
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      Don't the new macbooks have 'bootcamp' so you can run windows on it without doing any fancy mumbo jumbo magik on it?
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      Not sure but I'm just worried that the graphics card won't be good enough to run some games.
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      Mac's graphics cards can handle pretty much anything. Macs use a special add-on to OpenGL that allows that second core as part of the graphics card. You can see it working in the keynote from this summer where they announced EA moving to Mac.
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      Quote Originally Posted by ninja9578 View Post
      Mac's graphics cards can handle pretty much anything. Macs use a special add-on to OpenGL that allows that second core as part of the graphics card. You can see it working in the keynote from this summer where they announced EA moving to Mac.
      That's just a multi-threaded build of OpenGL, and is not limited (afaik) to mac's
      only catch, is that games have to be specifically written with multi-threaded graphics in mind
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      Should work fine. I might eventually use bootcamp (once I get leopard) just to run some stuff like Guild Wars. The graphics work great on my iMac.
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      I'd wait until Leopard comes out, I wouldn't buy a Macbook now, just to upgrade in a month or two.
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