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Will WoW run at least as good on the new iMac as my current PB?
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Let me put it this way...
My MacbookPro 17" has the x1600 and 2.33ghz C2D. I get 60FPS in WoW.
Now consider that the iMac is -more- powerful than that.
It will be fine.
here's something you need to consider:
look for the benchmarks yourself, but they are showing that nvidia offerings before this update are shown to outperform the new imac offering by a considerable degree.
i'm not buying the new imac because of the video card, a $2000+ computer should come with something better than a $99 video card.
the new imac, in my opinion, is like a brand new lamborghini with bicycle tires on it.
look for the benchmarks yourself, but they are showing that nvidia offerings before this update are shown to outperform the new imac offering by a considerable degree.
i'm not buying the new imac because of the video card, a $2000+ computer should come with something better than a $99 video card.
the new imac, in my opinion, is like a brand new lamborghini with bicycle tires on it.
its a x1600 mobile version that also is a bit underclocked, so I guess the 2600 is atleast 20-30% faster.
The 2.8Ghz extreme is much faster than the 2.33Ghz (which is on a slow bus and is outperformed by the new 2.2GHz MBP in almost every cpu intensive tests i've seen).
The new topend iMac will be atleast 20-30% faster than your PB.
THe old topend iMac would have been more than 50% faster in Wow tho.
The 24" iMacs are (and to a degree have always been) a crappy buy. For the price ($1800-$2300 depending on model and revision) you can almost get a Mac Pro and a decent monitor.
The iMac at $1200 though is a pretty decent deal. For your average consumer, at least. A similar Dell is going to run you around $850, and the iMac has significant higher quality. The display is probably nicer (I'm comparing it to the lower priced 18-bit Dell panel, assuming the iMac stuck with the 24-bit), it's likely quieter, has far better software, is easier to setup and maintain, better support, etc etc.
I'm a gamer - at least when I have time. I like to play games, but I'm not in that hardcore crowd (anymore). I picked up an XBox360 and the 2400XT is decent enough to run WoW, Guild Wars, and hopefully StarCraft 2, which is really all I (or most people) are looking for in a PC. I feel like gaming is moving towards two markets: MMO's and console games. There's rarely a big title anymore that doesn't make it one or more console within a year of release unless it's an MMO.
Anyways, back to the original topic, while I have no concrete knowledge, everything I've seen indicates that the x2400xt is roughly as powerful as the x1600 the old iMac had and the old iMacs played WoW pretty well from all accounts so I wouldn't worry too much about it.
There is a glitch with WOW on the new IMAC's. Blizzard has informed apple and are working to fix it.
Link to WOW MAC tech.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=889008955&sid=1
Link to WOW MAC tech.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=889008955&sid=1
The WoW forums are blocked for me (at work)... I'm curious what the issue is, though... if you wouldn't mind summarizing or copy/pasting it for me? Thanks!
Sure,
Below is the original post from the user explaining the problem:
Then blizzard replies with:
Followed by another blizzard reply:
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Sure,
Below is the original post from the user explaining the problem:
Then blizzard replies with:
Followed by another blizzard reply:
EDIT: Pic looks like this:
Heh, thanks. Good to know it sounds pretty simple and should hopefully get corrected quickly. Would have though at least one of the dev team for the iMac would be WoW player and they've spotted this before.
