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Musiqsoulman
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|  Posted: 2006-07-20 08:33
Well, I do know that DS isn't designed for Mac.
But can you actually play DS on a MacBook or MacBookPro with Intel core duo?
MacBooks are designed to run under Mac OS or Win Xp.
So is it possible to play DS with a MAcbook while running XP?
And if that is possible, have you ever tried? Is it performing well?
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| Posted: 2006-07-20 08:34
I don't think anyone bar Ragglock has a Mac that can do it. So, you'd be better of PM'ing him.
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Musiqsoulman
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| Posted: 2006-07-20 08:35
well perhaps somebody else had tried, once.
COs I'm thinking about getting a Macbook intel duo core.
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| Posted: 2006-07-20 10:06
PC's have faster harddrives, faster memory, better support for DVD drives, re-writers and such (and you can upgrade to have more than one, or two). You can also keep upgrading PC's. Wheras it's generally been an iffy area for Mac's in the past.
If you want to work in multimedia, go for a Mac. If you're not going to, or aren't now, then don't bother, and go for a PC. They're better for gaming.
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Musiqsoulman
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| Posted: 2006-07-20 10:09
Thanks. I was seeking much more specific info about the macbook dual core, cos if you use windows it's like if you were using a pc, only on a very different machine.
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| Posted: 2006-07-20 10:39
It's not.
Although there are some graphics cards for Mac machines, a lot of them don't work on the Mac setup, like the topend Nvidia or ATI cards, because the Mac market is tiny compared to that of the Windows one. They're also designed with playing games in mind, and since Mac's aren't designed to play games, there's no point in supporting them. Which is why I wouldn't really go for a Mac if you're aiming to play games.
If you want to play games, go for a normal PC or laptop. If you want to do media, then use the Mac and Macbooks. My friend has one of the new Macbooks that can run windows, and he says it isn't all 'that' because the graphics card is extremely lacking in certain area's, aswell as memory access times.
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Tael
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| Posted: 2006-07-20 11:30
Actually the Macs were not setup up to run XP. Some enthusiastic hackers made a hack to enable it.
With the overwhelming popularity of the hack, Apple decided to profit from it. So they back peddled away from their original stance of not supporting to making a shell software loader that assists you in loading windows onto the mac, but you void any support contracts with Apple for doing so.
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Shigernafy
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| Posted: 2006-07-20 12:38
There's talk of not only BootCamp allowing you to swap to windows at boot, but actual virtualisation software that would allow you to run both at once.
And using BootCamp does not void your warranty, according to the Apple website. You can't get support for BootCamp, but you can for your general apple software and hardware. Using the hack method may, however.. but that method was made somewhat unnecessary by the release of BootCamp.
You should probably read any EULAs and such yourself, though, before installing BootCamp if you decide to go that route, in case I'm wrong.
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Axalon
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| Posted: 2006-07-20 13:53
Simple answer: Yes, with Bootcamp.
I'm not going to go talking about which OS I think is better, as this isn't the place, but yes, if you install XP through Bootcamp and the drivers Bootcamp provides, it will work fine. Bootcamp is just glorified dual booting. There's absolutely no reason why DS, or anything else, wouldn't work on a Mac running XP.
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