Thursday, May 06, 2010

Gaming on the Mac

10 years ago I laughed at the Mac.

Back then it was all about Windows gaming, consoles were weak in comparison, and Mac had nothing.

Now? StarCraft 2 beta on Mac and Steam coming on May 6th makes it hardly laughable.

Mac is greater than the PC, and has been for a while.

Hardware components are hand-picked and drivers in the OS only need to support a handful of Apple-specific devices. That's the true power.

Combined with a Unix backend starting with OSX, XCode for every language (PHP HTML CSS even), and Adobe CS5 native Cocoa 64-bit, gaming was the last piece of the puzzle.

Mac wins. May 6th.

Heck, even Windows is better on a Mac (Parallels, VMware Fusion, Boot Camp).

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