Apple underdeveloped

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

CS:GO just came out same day on osx.

 

[Red Storm]

Exactly. If I were Apple, I wouldn't invest heavily in a dying market (PC gaming). You can either buy a PC, or get a console. Or just play casual games on your iPhone or iPad.

What is this dying market you speak of? PC gaming is alive and well.

 

[Oyeve]

PC gaming is already such a small market in comparison to the console-whores - why would Apple want to compete in an already dead market?

Ok... in fairness to PC gamers - it's not dead per se, just no where near the size of popularity of consoles. Apple DID target that market with iOS.

Only with the recent/current consoles. Apple and PC have been around the same number of years and apple has always not been a gaming platform since the very late 70 and early 80s and when PCs became cheaper to build it dominated even console in games. Only since 360, wii and ps3 did computer systems become last place in gaming.

 

[Steelbom]

It would be really good if Apple made a gaming only rig. An i5 3570, and options for graphics cards from the AMD Radeon HD 7770 to the 7970 or GTX 660 Ti to the 680. And have it priced well.

 

[ViRGE]

Someday, I hope VMware brings direct hardware utilization to Fusion. I'd love to pop a second video card in my Hackintosh and map it directly to my Windows VM for gaming!

I'm not sure you can even have VT-d in something like Fusion. I think that would require a bare metal hypervisor, rather than guest hypervisor like Fusion/Workstation/Player.

 

[Dominato3r]

That's a very ignorant thing to say. Look at Valve. They just showed they can get more FPS out of a game in Linux using OpenGL than on Windows using Direct3D.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/...inux-port-of-l4d2-outperform-windows-version/

Using an engine that has been shitting out DX9 games for ages, and now its updated for the latest OpenGL version and it trumphs?

Color me surprised.