Electronic Arts, id Software announce commitment to Mac gaming
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Originally Posted by anantksundaram 
OK.... I am a bit puzzled (any others?): My posts on appear exactly 1 hour and 10 minutes prior to when I actually post them.
Maybe the internet (or WWW, or whatever!) is being a bit screw-y today. I wonder if that might explain some of the Safari-related problems people have been experiencing. (See the "Safari for Windows" thread below).
OK.... I am a bit puzzled (any others?): My posts on appear exactly 1 hour and 10 minutes prior to when I actually post them.
Maybe the internet (or WWW, or whatever!) is being a bit screw-y today. I wonder if that might explain some of the Safari-related problems people have been experiencing. (See the "Safari for Windows" thread below).
My last post to you was sent in at about 4.41 PM New York time, but ended up as being listed at 3.37 PM.
I wonder what this one will come out as?
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OK.... I am a bit puzzled (any others?): My posts on appear exactly 1 hour and 10 minutes prior to when I actually post them.
Maybe the internet (or WWW, or whatever!) is being a bit screw-y today. I wonder if that might explain some of the Safari-related problems people have been experiencing. (See the "Safari for Windows" thread below).
Funny because I thought I had first post and I have replies to my post apparently before I posted. Has AI been running Leopard beta and Time Machine on it's servers.
EDIT: This is my second post actually. It's not do to with Safari 3 Melgross as I'm on IE5.5 here!
And then go pwn them
I'm gonna upgrade to the new MBP when those games come out so I get the better graphics card. yeah, the X1600 is great, but I wanna go as far as I can! (staying w/ a mac laptop, anyways...) Given EA's rep for resource-hungry games, I can be sure that I'll need the extra horsepower....
In the opening minutes of his keynote address, Jobs invited Bing Gordon, CCO and co-founder of Electronic Arts (EA Games), on stage to announce a commitment to bring EA's portfolio of hit games to the Mac OS X operating system.
Gordon said the first EA Mac titles are slated to ship this summer and include the wizarding adventure Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, racing sensation Need for Speed Carbon, military action thriller Battlefield 2142 and the real-time strategy hit Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars.
Being the first Mac OS X games published by EA, the titles are being ported to take advantage of the Mac’s performance to run with stunning visuals and signature gameplay at blistering speeds, Gordon said.
Later this year, EA also plans to ship Madden NFL 08 and Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08 for the Mac in sync with their worldwide launches.
Following Gordon was id Software co-founder John Carmack, who used his time on the WWDC stage to offer the first public demonstration of his firm's upcoming Tech 5 technology running live on Mac OS X.
The new rendering technology, which will power id's new internally developed game (of unknown nature), practically eliminates the texture memory constraints typically placed on artists and designers. It also allows for the unique customization of the entire game world at the pixel level, delivering virtually unlimited visual fidelity, Carmack said.
Combined with a powerful new suite of tools designed to specifically facilitate and accelerate this content creation process, id Tech 5 will power games that contain vast outdoor landscapes that are completely unique to the horizon, yet have indoor environments with unprecedented artistic detail.
While shown for the very first time running in real time on a Mac, id Tech 5 will also support the Xbox 360 and Playstation3 console platforms as well as the PC.
Before departing, Carmack said he'd have one more Mac related announcement to make during this July's E3 Media and Business Summit in Santa Monica, Calif.
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The low end hardware in the mini sucks for gaming as well and it should have 1gb base ram.
The I-macs are not that good as well, laptop cps and video cards, as well no high end video cards, and you are forced to buy other upgrades to just be able to pay more for a better video card and gamers don't like AIO's.
The mac book black at $1500 should have better video then gma 950.
The mac books pros are better for gaming. But at there price you can get a desktop with 1-2 high end video cards and a high speed desktop cpu with 2-4 gb of ram with as well a fast desktop HD.
I could play all this stuff with Bootcamp + XP.
Not to mention paying for Windows.
OK.... I am a bit puzzled (any others?): My posts on appear exactly 1 hour and 10 minutes prior to when I actually post them.
Maybe the internet (or WWW, or whatever!) is being a bit screw-y today. I wonder if that might explain some of the Safari-related problems people have been experiencing. (See the "Safari for Windows" thread below).
I'm having odd problems like that as well. some of my posts appear above the posts I'm answering, with an earlier time stamp.
Something is screwed up. Earlier, I couldn't get to the site at all. a couple of my posts then got posted an hour after I sent them.
Right now, I don't seem to be getting e-mail notifications of posts to threads I'm on.
how about you?
Not to mention paying for Windows.
OK.... I am a bit puzzled (any others?): My posts on appear exactly 1 hour and 10 minutes prior to when I actually post them.
Maybe the internet (or WWW, or whatever!) is being a bit screw-y today. I wonder if that might explain some of the Safari-related problems people have been experiencing. (See the "Safari for Windows" thread below).
Oh MAN!
That last one came out as 1.51 AM!!!
What gives?
It would be nice if someone from the site told us what was going on.
OK.... I am a bit puzzled (any others?): My posts on appear exactly 1 hour and 10 minutes prior to when I actually post them.
Maybe the internet (or WWW, or whatever!) is being a bit screw-y today. I wonder if that might explain some of the Safari-related problems people have been experiencing. (See the "Safari for Windows" thread below).
Well, now I'm also wondering if this time thing is from the new Mac version 3.0 of Safari I just installed.
But that doesn't account for the earlier site problems.
Apple highlights not one, not two - but three product streams that make mac games irrelevant. Tough timing id, and EA.
With Bootcamp being built in (ie. no CD etc.) and being able to put windows and osX to sleep to (more) quickly switch between them, what's the point of buying a mac game over the windows version? Oh and that is of course assuming that parrellells and the other guys don't get up to adequate performance levels.
why mac games?
mac. click (shut lid). open Game machine. click (shut lid). Open Mac.
Is there any hint whether these will be Universal or Intel only?
here's your answer:
http://www.transgaming.com/?name=New...=article&sid=5
"Cider is a sophisticated portability engine that allows Windows games to be run on Intel Macs without any modifications to the original game source code."
In Other News,
Apple highlights not one, not two - but three product streams that make mac games irrelevant. Tough timing id, and EA.
With Bootcamp being built in (ie. no CD etc.) and being able to put windows and osX to sleep to (more) quickly switch between them, what's the point of buying a mac game over the windows version? Oh and that is of course assuming that parrellells and the other guys don't get up to adequate performance levels.
why mac games?
mac. click (shut lid). open Game machine. click (shut lid). Open Mac.
I don't think it will work that way unless Apple enables better user access to hibernation, short of almost running the battery down during sleep, it's an odd terminal command right now. Hibernation is kind of slow on both OS X and Windows, maybe only 2x as fast as a normal boot-up rather than instant-on. Sleep mode alone is not enough because the OS stays in memory during sleep. What you suggest may as well be a virtualization system, to be as fast as sleep would be but still switch operating systems.
Is there any hint whether these will be Universal or Intel only?
Good question, my guess will be intel only.
Maybe the internet (or WWW, or whatever!) is being a bit screw-y today. I wonder if that might explain some of the Safari-related problems people have been experiencing. (See the "Safari for Windows" thread below).
Funny because I thought I had first post and I have replies to my post apparently before I posted. Has AI been running Leopard beta and Time Machine on it's servers.
I don't know what's going on, but they aren't being forthcoming about it.
They should send a post to each forum, and news discussion, as to what the problem is, what they are doing about it, and how long they estimate it will take to fix.
This will not happen and is only a dream so dont go crazy and start yelling at me
Games for the Mac. Great. But where is the hardware for that. Games like C&C 3 need a decent gpu and even the gpu in the new macbook pro is only a midrange card. All the integrated gpu crap just sucks for gaming. There is only one conclusion. Apple will release an expandable Mac with better gpu options. Just my two cents.
How many Windows portables that cost the same as the MBP have better GPU's than the new one has? The 8600 is pretty good. What are you expecting in a portable?