Windowless world.

[Liam Proven]

On 9 October 2010 14:41, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> On 09/10/2010 19:07, Michael Haney wrote:
>>
>> [slice]
>>
>>> [dice]
>>
>> Somehow this, "Does not compute".
>>
>> Why would he spend $3,000 on something to be used with Windows when
>> "he's been and still is a heavy Mac user.....he  simply couldn't stand
>> Windows anymore"; and so why spend $3000 on a Windows system? The mind
>> simply boggles at such a procurement...... Ah, he has money to spend,
>> right? :-) .
>>
>
> Its "strictly" a gaming system.  He bought it specifically for Final
> Fantasy XIV, the new MMO that has pretty high system requirements.  He
> switches over to his Macbook Pro with a kvm to browse the web and
> download files.  The gaming rig does have AV software.  Everything
> else he does he does using his Macbook Pro.
>
> He did consider Ubuntu for the gaming system but went with Windows 7
> instead because Wine didn't work with most of his games.

Hmmm. The last 3 times Mac-using friends who came to me to ask me to
build dedicated Windows gaming rigs for them, I advised them to
upgrade to decently-specced Intel Macs and dual-boot them into Windows
XP using BootCamp.

Both seem very happy with the results. They use Windows for games and
OS X for everything else.


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