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    Question for a newcomer Mac Noobie

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by darkloki, Sep 25, 2010.

  1. darkloki

    darkloki Notebook Deity

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    I've always been a PC type of guy with Gaming PC's as I have 2 alienwares and one custom built desktop of my own but I've recently acquired a macbook pro i7 15 inch, with standard specs meaning 4 gigs of ram and the 500gig Harddrive. I'm suppose to use this thing for work, but steam is now working on MACs and I was curious to know what games will work on my MacBook? optimally. I only ask because I recently got StarCraft2 and sadly that didn't sit all too well with me on my Macbook,it just wasn't all there for me.

    So again my question is what are some good titles that'll run on this thing :D
     
    darkloki, Sep 25, 2010
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  2. DJRiful

    DJRiful Notebook Consultant

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    Why don't you try it?
     
    DJRiful, Sep 25, 2010
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  3. pbcustom98

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    1) check the specs on games for mac
    2) compare to specs of your mac
    3) ????
    4) profit
     
    pbcustom98, Sep 25, 2010
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  4. Akari

    Akari Notebook Evangelist

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    Currently on Macs the only real games you can get via steam are Team Fortress 2, Counterstrike:Source, the Half-Life orange box, Torchlight, Killing Floor (which isn't much of a game) and now Civilization IV.

    I would assume the Orange Box games will run fairly well since they are very old games now (2004-2007). You can expect that the other games will not run very well on high settings.

    What is good, though, is that (I believe) if you own any of these games already for PC you can download the Mac version free of charge.
     
    Akari, Sep 25, 2010
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  5. darkloki

    darkloki Notebook Deity

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    Alright I'll give it a shot, I'm starting to have second thoughts though as to why I didn't pick up a Gloss Screen over my Anti Glare, in some ways I prefer the glass finish actually.
     
    darkloki, Sep 26, 2010
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