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Old June 1st, 2007, 12:37 PM
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because of all the gaming. but now since I have a macbook I don't have to worry.
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because of all the gaming. but now since I have a macbook I don't have to worry.
Don't worry because Parallels has just announced Parallels 3.0 that supports 3D gaming.
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That's really neat Satcomer! The only issue with that is how smooth can it run? The reason for me saying that when your running Parallels, your system is pretty much taxed as it is. So now it has to not only run Mac OS X and Windows at the same time, it also has to run a 3D game. It sounds pretty neat though, hope it works out.
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I have been a die hard PC guy for MANY years. I have been very frustrated with my windows laptop for about a year. I thought an upgrade to vista would help... OMG what a mistake!!! I tossed around the idea of a mac. The only thing stopping me was the need to run MS Access applications using ODBC to a SQL server. I came across codeweavers Crossover office. Install it and then Access XP. Loaded my DB, added a DSN and it all worked!!! Could not believe it! I am so happy that I am now typing this message on my shiny new MBP! Just thought I would share!!

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I used to work in a company that had windows and mac desktops. The main problems I heard about the macs were how they interloped with the windows server environment!

Macs are unix machines and can be hard to hack (without using third person software) given the right user/admin. If macs became more popular, you would definitely see more problems.

Games are the only thing holding me back from getting rid of windows for good.
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Does anyone know what Apple's plans are on creating their own version of DirectX so they can compete with the gaming market.

On the bright side, there was a post on digg.com today about EA games starting to bring games to macs.
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Does anyone know what Apple's plans are on creating their own version of DirectX so they can compete with the gaming market.

On the bright side, there was a post on digg.com today about EA games starting to bring games to macs.
Yep, they mentioned that in the Keynote.
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