Best Mac for EvE Online - Non Mac Pro desktop

[3fingerbrewing]

Hello,

I am in the market for my first Mac. I play EvE Online now on my old PC but am looking at getting a Mac.

What I would like to know is your opinions on which Mac would be best?

I know I could go with a Mac Pro desktop and be fine but I was looking at either a 27" iMac or MBP.

Thoughts from any other Eve players out there?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Mackilroy]

The iMac will be better - it can have a 5750, which is faster than the 330M found in the MacBook Pro.

 

[mobilehaathi]

Honestly, it'll run great on any of the current machines with a discrete video card. I can run it on high settings on the MPB in my sig. The port isn't great, but it works. The only other option is to bootcamp a windows partition.

 

[BigYellow]

I played the trial a while back, and it ran great on my 2008 Mac Pro (2x 2.8GHz quadcore), which was BTO with a Geforce 8800GT, but only 2GB RAM. And I was running the OS X client, not via bootcamp. I'd say they did a pretty damn good job of porting it.

 

[0186279]

Its one of the least graphically demanding MMO's (or games in general) on the market. Anything will do really.

 

[Alx9876]

Go with the iMac i7 or 2.93 ghz with the Ati 5750 card in it.

Maxed settings for Eve or that new Final Fantasy MMO.

 

[Merthyrboy]

I play it on my iMac 21.5 inch with 8gb ram and 512mb vram with absolutely no problem and it does look stunning.