Nickname: ga

Review: In order for Apple to infiltrate a market dominated by Windows and big cheap boxes, Apple needs to make their own cheap boxes. iMacs only have midrange graphics from two years ago. The only Macs that can have the graphic card removed and replaced with a better one are high end workstations, not gaming machines. There is no way of knowing what will happen if Apple makes a modular midtower. eMachines really has got it easy, they don't have to worry about any if this stuff.

Date reviewed: Dec 11, 2008 6:16 AM

Nickname: PokyPal

Review: A.H. -- I can't find your name anywhere. There's news afoot and you might want to know what's up. Send me your email address and we'll exchange views. You will find this very entertaining, I'm sure. Chuck

Date reviewed: Feb 22, 2007 7:27 AM

Nickname: Qurmudjin

Review: Apple should seriously consider writing more software (such as iTunes) to run on Windows computers, and I think games would be a great place to start. I think an online game like "City of Heroes" (also to be ported soon?) would go a long way to demonstrating to Windows' users the kind of superior designed software we Mac users have long enjoyed.

Date reviewed: Oct 2, 2006 1:27 AM

Nickname: Donald

Review: Yes, Apple needs more games, but Rich Hernandez, the manager of Apple's games segment, just left. And no one seems to be taking his place. Not a good sign for games.

Date reviewed: Sep 6, 2006 6:26 PM

Nickname: IMRAN.COM

Review: Great article. I had written a piece in 1996 saying I would remain a MacUser, even as Gil Amelio was trying to SINK Apple. Fortunately, I managed to survive the 80s, 90's and 00's being a MacUser and am so delighted to see previous PC users flocking to the Mac. The lack of games was less frustrating for me than the lack of flights sims since FLY! stopped updating. But since I bought X-Plane, and installed Golf Links, I have pretty much all the gaming I want --- I find enough ways to waste time creating new stuff on the Mac that adding gaming to it does not seem sensible. :-) Imran IMRAN.TV

Date reviewed: Aug 23, 2006 3:02 AM

Nickname: bhessel

Review: Apple's entertainment focus has to be on bringing games (and movies) to the iPod. Bootcamp solves 99% of the games-on-a-Mac problem. All we need is an Intel-compatible upgrade of Strategic Conquest and we will be 100% there.

Date reviewed: Jul 27, 2006 2:06 PM

Nickname: ian

Review: Ya. Apple and Gaming. Talk to me again when an Apple owner can actually buy computer components and customize their computer for gaming. Not going to happen.

Date reviewed: Jun 13, 2006 8:30 PM

Nickname: robcraine

Review: The best thing about Macintosh gaming is Ambrosia software (www.ambrosiasw.com) from the early days of maelstrom, through Bubble Trouble and the Escape Velocity, they have always produced exciting, highly entertaining, even more highly addictive, reasonably priced games.

Date reviewed: Jun 7, 2006 3:20 PM

Nickname: imagfg

Review: What we really need are some LucasArts games like Monkey Island and Grim Fandango for Macs. Ah, the good old days of gaming.

Date reviewed: Jun 5, 2006 8:21 PM

Nickname: Robert

Review: I think Apple is doing OK in the game department. Just check out http://www.apple.com/games/articles/ I think that now Apple's desktops and laptops share the same powerful Intel architecture we can expect even more good Mac native games to appear on OS X. Boot Camp will appease some hard core PC gamers, but the rest will still lust after dedicated graphics cards (perhaps to appear on the "gamer MacBook," which is rumored to come out late '06 or early '07). In the meantime, I still have a 6-year-old G3 iMac, which has Bugdom, Cro-Mag Rally, and Nanosaur--which my kids still can't get enough of.

Date reviewed: Jun 5, 2006 8:17 PM