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considering switching from PC to a Mac
pro_:
starcraft is native to macos, sure you could test it, but why go throught the trouble of a full install when you could test it just as easily with minesweeper?
SpacemanSpiff:
Starcraft's native? I haven't paid a lot of attention apparently.
That leaves me with the entire Homeworld series (I know there are Mac ports, but they're PPC only, at least HW2), SWINE and a couple of others.
Does anybody feel like trying it? SWINE is available as a full, legal download if you need a copy of any of these games...
And personally, I couldn't use Ubuntu for more than 2 minutes or my head would have exploded with rage. I've never seen a distro that's so hard to customize. Also: No root, for Christ's sake! No root!
edscoble:
--- Quote from: SpacemanSpiff ---As for switching from Windows to Mac: I've thought about it myself (the MacBook Pro is one nice machine) but in the end the fact that it has an EFI BIOS which means that Windows is a complete no-go...
--- End quote ---
actually Vista will run on the new Intel Mac because it can boot under EFI, so problem solved.
Windows Vista and OS X running on an Intel machine would be my dream.
nihilist:
I'm not sure where you get your information from, edscoble, but it's looking like a no-go. Vista won't support EFI 1.1, which MacTels use. It will, however, support EFI 2.1 at a later date. Apple decided to use EFI 1.1 because 2.x won't be ready for a while yet. All other PC companies are going to use EFI 2.1. So Apple has run itself up an evolutionary dead-end, and locked out Windows.
Luke:
Can I ask just one thing - why is the issue always referred to as "PC vs. Mac"? Since when is a Mac not a Personal Computer?
*doesn't have much else to say on the subject*
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