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Originally Posted by Libertine
With boot camp, you're just running windows on the same hardware, so performance should not be a big problem. It's when you run windows virtually that performance suffers.
On the other hand, with future games, it will become a problem... but that's the same with all hardware. Half a year after you buy it, it's dated  |
It is not a software issue. Unfortunately, the high end graphics cards are only available for the PC platform. Macs have a different type of bios and while you can probably install a Mac video card in a PC, you cannot do it the other way around. The brand new Imac comes with the ATI HD2600 PRO. Also the Imac has a lot of laptop parts so that card will probably not be upgradeable. The best you can get with the Mac Pro is the ATI X1900XT. While those cards are alright, they don?t even perform at half of the rate of the high-end PC cards. You can do some mild gaming but you can forget about playing the newest games at high resolutions. I have always like apple and their products and they have pros and cons. The bottle line, however, is that if you are very concerned about gaming you pretty much have to go with a PC. Gaming is just not a priority for apple.