The reason I-Macs will be Apple's top gaming line

[DELTAsnake]

I use my iMac for gaming, it runs Crysis at just under 30fps with all the settings maxed out, but it's not the best gaming PC in Apple's lineup. The Mac Pro has far more CPU power and ram than any game today needs and it's cards are upgradeable. If you have the money, and room in your home, a Mac Pro is a far better gaming machine that will be able to run games at max settings for years to come.

 

[kasakka]

I use my iMac for gaming, it runs Crysis at just under 30fps with all the settings maxed out, but it's not the best gaming PC in Apple's lineup. The Mac Pro has far more CPU power and ram than any game today needs and it's cards are upgradeable. If you have the money, and room in your home, a Mac Pro is a far better gaming machine that will be able to run games at max settings for years to come.

Even with a Mac Pro you have the problem that you just can't upgrade the graphics card, simply because many graphics cards have no drivers for OSX. I'm still waiting for a driver update so I can use my GTX260 on my Hackintosh.

 

[BlackMax]

I was just saying I hope you didn't buy the iMac just for "casual gaming," because thats an expensive mediocre gaming machine.

Not that it is any of my business, but I just hope it wasn't bought for gaming and web browsing.

Just my two-cents:

Casual gaming = Purchasing a machine with another primary purpose in mind, but would like to be able to play the occasional game on it as well.

The iMac below in my signature is what my family uses for "casual gaming" and it works just fine. We did have home built PC for this purpose, but when Apple offered the nVidia 8800M GTS as an option on the late 2008 iMac we purchased it and got rid of the PC. We play CoH, LoTR, HL2, Oblivion, Far Cry, Battlefield 2 and many others smooth as glass with no issues.

Of course, gaming is the secondary purpose of this machine, the primary purpose is an all around family computer, coding, graphic design work, etc. This iMac has functioned well at all these tasks.

 

[crackbookpro]

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[QCassidy352]

Casual gamers can't afford >$2k for a computer can they?

What? How does that make sense? Wouldn't a "serious gamer" be less likely to have a real job and therefore substantial disposable income?

 

[JDee]

1) Style
2) Affordability (relatively speaking)
3) Processor/ GPU Power

Whilst the Mac Pro will feature the GTX285 this summer, it makes no sense to drop $3,000 just for that card, and some quad core, non-gaming intended processor just to run Boot Camp.

The I-Mac will never feature a card that equipped unless it devotes serious resources to better fans and cooling, so I do believe that this line of 4850's are the best GPU/gaming card we will see for a while. The next update figures to be more processor oriented.

It's an iMac - not an I-Mac

Who said a Mac Pro isn't good for gaming?