OS Neutral Mac Gamers, Can you live without Windows?

[Dirtyharry50]

On reading looking through this thread does it not just come down to each to their own, and what suits ?

Yes. I could not agree with you more there.

 

[Plutonius]

Guild Wars 2

WoW is native OS X and a much better game .

 

[Washac]

WoW is native OS X and a much better game .

I got bored with WoW and felt it became to expensive to play, then the pandas came
along and I ran far far away.

 

[gregorsamsa]

I share this opinion. It's a pity that lots of old games don't run any more on newer Macs. To a certain degree I replaced my old favorites with the Windows versions bought cheaply from GOG and other sources. Together with VMware Fusion, Crossover and Boxer many of the old games become playable on the Mac again.
While Bootcamp is not actually a requirement, there are still some old games which work better under a real Windows than in a virtualized environment. That's one of the reasons why I have bootcamp and several virtual Windows solutions on my Mac.

So, can I live without Windows? Sure, I could keep my old Macs and have machines for several generations of older games. But to be honest, Windows does a much better job at keeping compatibility with older games.

Well put. Loss of compatibility with older PPC Mac games was just one main reason for me turning to Windows. But each new version of OS X seems to break yet more things. Windows is, with exceptions, mostly free of these regular hassles.

As we know, Mac games aren't cheap, but replacing them with PC versions cost me very little. Moreover, a decent gaming PC (not cutting-edge), cost me little more than an older Mac. IMO, it's hard to beat Windows for certain games, but for those happy with Mac only, then good for them.

 

[(Chanticleer)]

I could. Because most of the games I play are Valve games, which are supported on mac, I can gladly live without windows!

I agree, Steam and Valve made Windows irrelevant other than needing it for schoolwork, servicing, and testing.

 

[Huntn]

This last vacation I went on stayed in Windows 7 for the entire time for surfing and game playing when the opportunity arose. The MacOS has become such a dog for both OSX 8 &9 in normal everyday computing tasks. In comparison, Windows 7 cranks right up and gives me a desktop in about 30 sec vs 5 min for MacOS. When I get home, I'll crank OS9 up once again. See my signature. I do plan on upgrading my hardware to 8Gb soon.

Interesting I have completely the opposite experience. Windows is something that has to be endured as a necessary evil when I have something to do that is Windows only.

Edwin

As you may know, I've been a MacOS fan since my first Mac. The source of this current frustration is poor performance with MacOSX I am experiencing on my MBP. After two MacOS upgrades 08 and 09, my impression is that there is nothing wrong other than maybe not enough RAM and hopefully when I upgrade the RAM maybe the situation will correct itself. I started a "too many spinning balls" in the MacOS forum a while back. Of course when I'm home doing serious work, I swallow the subpar performance because I really only trust the MacOS for serious work and Windows only for surfing forums like this and gaming.

Update, today I bit the bullet and called Apple: Problem solved- clean install of MacOS, first time I've ever done it on MacOSX since it appeared, however this is the first Mac I've run 3 OS major updates on. Apparently there was a ton of junk or whatever scattered about, slowing things down. Now it's like I remember it, snappy and responsive For more info see this thread. I need a good resource for MacOS preventative maintenance. Any suggestions appreciated. Of note, I have Disk Warrior which I run on occasion. Thanks!