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I Was Thinking To Buy A Apple Machine For Gaming? Is It Designed For Gaming Or Only For Graphic Rendering Or Other Graphics Related Work? If Gaming Can Be Done Which One To Buy? Budget No Problem At My End :)

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If budget is no problem then buy yourself a Dual 2Ghz G5 with a 23" Cinema Display and send me the same thing while your buying ;)

Macs tend to be known for graphics, though majority of games do work on OS X :)

Radish?

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Majority? Maybe a majority of the recent big games is the best way to phrase that, because it's not a majority overall by any means ;)

If budget is not problem buy what Radish said plus a nice gaming PC, two great gaming machines and all the games you could ever want :)

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If you want a system for gaming, Macintosh is not for you. My suggestion, if you want a Mac and want to game on the side, get a PS2/xbox/Gamecube and buy a cheaper Mac. If you don't care about the Mac and just want to game, buy a nice PC or a game machine. But above all DO NOT buy an Apple lcd if you plan on gaming a lot. They are rated at over 30ms, so ghosting will be constant.

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actually. there are really few good games out for macinstoshs. i mean warcraft and tony hawk 4 have been hybrid but hrm...well....either get a low budget pc for gaming or a console.

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Apple seems to go out of its way to not mention their refresh rates. That isn't a good thing.

http://www.apple.com/displays/asd17/

http://a480.g.akamai.net/7/480/51/7e7773db...Displays_DS.pdf

i realize that, which is why i would like to know how superfula knows they are rated at over 30ms. my guess is, they are 30ms and he has no idea what he's talking about.

roguejawa: i have a 30ms monitor, and it ghosts to just from moving a window back and forth.

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gameing on a Mac? ha!, Halo , Warcraft III are the last games I heard of working on a mac, maybe something newer now.

:huh: perhaps that is because you have no idea what you're talking about?

since apple store links aren't 'postable', here are some titles that most people are interested in:

Age of Empires II

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

BloodRayne

Civilization III

Command and Conquer Generals

Ghost Recon: Desert Siege

James Bond Night Fire

Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast

Lord Of The Rings - The Return of the King

Max Payne

Medal of Honor Deluxe Edition

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4

Unreal Tournament 2004

WarCraft III

X-Plane

and that's just from the action games category. and that's a summary, not every game listed by apple. and then you have those other games, like snood or whatever. and then you have simcity 4 and the sims + every expansion pack i've ever heard of.

*if any of those games are from like 1999, don't hurt me. i'm not a big gamer and just posted the ones that i've heard of at one time or another.

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i realize that, which is why i would like to know how superfula knows they are rated at over 30ms. my guess is, they are 30ms and he has no idea what he's talking about.

roguejawa: i have a 30ms monitor, and it ghosts to just from moving a window back and forth.

30ms is horrid for gaming. 16ms is tolerable and 12ms is desired.

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30ms is horrid for gaming. 16ms is tolerable and 12ms is desired.

lol, it's never bothered me... like if i am paying attention to the fact that i can drag something and ghost, then yea, it bothers me, but it's not something i'm worried about as i try to hit the handbrake just right to make it around this corner without hitting anything.

KeR: WOOT MACS SUCK I R TEH 1337!!11!

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lol, it's never bothered me...  like if i am paying attention to the fact that i can drag something and ghost, then yea, it bothers me, but it's not something i'm worried about as i try to hit the handbrake just right to make it around this corner without hitting anything.

Reminds me of the lines across Apple Trinitron CRT monitors. The 16" display had one line of dead pixels and the 20" had two lines of dead pixels. People used to own those monitor for years and didn't notice them. Then once you point them out they can't stop staring at them. I know, it was mean of me. :devil:

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Reminds me of the lines across Apple Trinitron CRT monitors. The 16" display had one line of dead pixels and the 20" had two lines of dead pixels. People used to own those monitor for years and didn't notice them. Then once you point them out they can't stop staring at them. I know, it was mean of me. :devil:

haha, nah, my friend pointed it out too, and it just doesn't bother me, at all *shrug*

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Reminds me of the lines across Apple Trinitron CRT monitors.  The 16" display had one line of dead pixels and the 20" had two lines of dead pixels.  People used to own those monitor for years and didn't notice them.  Then once you point them out they can't stop staring at them.  I know, it was mean of me. :devil:

Uhh, all Trinitron monitors have those lines, and they arent dead pixels. It's not some problem with Apple engineering, it part of the technology of all Trinitron monitors

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Uhh, all Trinitron monitors have those lines, and they arent dead pixels. It's not some problem with Apple engineering, it part of the technology of all Trinitron monitors

Yeah, those are suspension wires that do something that I forget. :p

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