I’m with stupid Bot

Or you could buy a Mac and run both WinBLOWS and OS X on it. Use OS X for everyday uses (so you don’t have to tear your eyes out) and play games on the ultimate GAMING operating system.

WinBLOWS.

Bot

I love Macs because they do what I need a computer to do and I prefer it to Windows PC. Will I follow Apple blindly? No. If Apple one day started making software and hardware that don’t meet my needs, I will look for alternatives. I do hope Apple do well though and it’s only because I own their stocks

Anyway, point is, Apple is not Microsoft and I don’t think it’s trying to be. Apple has its niche and it’s doing just fine. If you aren’t attracted by Macs you either haven’t tried one or simply aren’t the kind of people Apple is targeting. Does that mean Apple is perfect? Far from it, but for better or worse, it’s obvious Apple is going after hardcore gamers who like to take their computers apart and tinker with everything. They are going after people who want computers that just works.

Apple = most proprietary closed system ever.

If you had to make an OS for a handful of machines its easy not to screw up

Apple = Subaru of Computers. It does one thing well, but don’t look for a large variety of options.

Apple = Cares little for gamers therefore I care little for Apple.

I wish they made games more of a priority but I’ll gladly take an appalling lack of games to avoid the trainwreck that is gaming in Windows.

When I got my first intel mac I gladly loaded bootcamp and installed Windows on a partition. After a month of that I never went back.

Am I a fanboy? No, just a former Windows user. Maybe Vista will patch its way into OS superiority (it’s happened before. I left that horrible legacy Mac OS for XP) and if that happens, I’ll be a Windows user once again. Blind loyalty to a particular OS is stupid in the extreme.

It’d be nice to know what’d be “necessary.” A direct-to-hardware interface, such as MS has now made impossible in Vista, that’d probably be a non-starter, all right. Driver support for high-end vid cards, well, that’s pretty much in ATI & NVidia’s courts. An API extension to cover high-speed texture mapping, anti-aliasing, etc., well, that just needs a couple dozen programmer man-years, and Apple could/should/would do it if they thought they’d sell a bunch of machines by reaching feature parity.

Personally, I doubt they would. From what I read in the gaming threads, game players are willing to spend huge amounts of their time fiddling with overclocking, disabling system services that might lower frame rates, and etc., and these users match very poorly against their customer profile of people who want things to just work, perhaps not run at 105% of the hardware capability even, as long as they don’t have to waste their time on the 95% capability that gets their pictures / email / etc taken care of. Why would somebody who wants to hotrod their machine buy one that offers superior tech support but only to those who don’t fiddle with stuff? (E.g., people who modded their iPhones into iBricks.)

Like others have pointed out, even the PC gaming industry is struggling compare to their console counterpart. Why do you think Microsoft released Halo 3 for Xbox first and not PC?

As for PCs being more “upgradeable”, that is somewhat true although misleading. AFAIK, most PC manufacturers make your typical “boxes”, nothing unique like the iMac or Mac mini (except for the copycats who do a piss poor job anyway). However, Apple’s Mac Pros (formerly known as Power Macs) are very upgradeable.

Now from a completely marketing POV, there is a very well established myth out there that Macs simply aren’t good for gaming for various reasons. This myth is often reinforced by ignorance (as can be seen by some immature comments above) and also lack of games for Mac compared to PC. In order to make the Mac a competitive gaming platform, it would require A GREAT AMOUNT of money, time and effort with no guaranteed (and even likely) success and even if they did succeed, would the reward be worth it?

Bottom line is, if you are a hardcore gamer, you probably already own a console or two (and maybe even a PC). If you are a casual gamer, like myself, the games available on the Mac is more than enough.