saarek

I wish them luck with their fight. From what I have read, they've a genuine case here and Apple knows it.

Xed said:

lam92103 said:

Pushing hard? The new ARM based Mac Pros don't even support GPUs.

All Macs have GPUs.

I’m assuming they meant External GPU’s.

If the opportunity is tempting enough the gaming companies will come.

In the G3-G5 days the Mac market share was insignificant and the effort needed to port games was great, so very few companies did it.

In the Intel days the market share was largely still small and the majority of the computers that Apple sold came with shitty integrated graphics that were not suitable for gaming.

Now every Mac sold is genuinely able to play AAA games and the market share is much larger than it was.

No, it won’t match a dedicated PC gaming rig, but most games sold on the PC are not played on those anyway.

I don’t game too often, two young kids and a hefty mortgage have seen to that. Still, I’ve very much enjoyed playing Baldur’s Gate 3 on my MacBook Pro recently and look forward to other releases in the future. if they’d not released it on the Mac I’d not have bought it.

Interesting that Apple is letting this run so close to the wire here. I guess they are playing hard arse to get a discounted settlement.

Goldman Sachs apparently claim that they have lost billions of dollars on this venture. I'm not sure how this is possible. If the claim was that they'd lost billions of dollars in profits, I'd understand, but to actually lose money seems nonsensical. Surely they worked out adequate running costs to ensure that they'd at the very least break even?