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Any WoW addicts use Mac as their primary OS?

wheresmybacon

wheresmybacon

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As a longtime PC fan and system builder, it's with some trepidation that I admit that I'm considering making my primary machine a Mac when I look to buy and/or build something new this summer.

WoW is pretty much the only game I play these days, and after hearing Diablo III will be available to Mac as soon as it's released, I'm seriously considering going with an iMac or maybe even a Pro as my primary machine.

So my question then is obvious:

Who plays WoW on a Mac as their primary system, and what's the performance like? Framerates, graphical detail, etc?
 
I did in the past. I had a basic machine so it was only average. But any modern machine will play it just fine, and Blizzard is one of the few debs who put as much effort into their Mac clients as their Windows counterparts.
 
It runs on my Macbook (2.13/4GB/GF9400, which I use for 90% of my non-gaming computing needs) just fine, but gets so damnably hot I get nervous. (I had a G4 iBook that melted its VRAM off. Supposedly it was a design flaw that wasn't repeated in the Macbooks, but I'm paranoid now.)

On a proper desktop system with good ventilation it would be fine. Even with the crap GPU. But I usually use my Windows PC for WoW instead.

There's a CLI utility that can limit a process to a specific % of CPU use. I forget what it's called, but if you have a MacBook like me it might help with the heat. (It worked for DOSBox, but it's been a while...)
 
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