Comments on: 32 Rebuffed Mac Myths [1-10] (Reply to: PC PRO’s 32 reasons why PC’s are better than Macs) http://mostfoolhardy.org/2007/04/17/32-rebuffed-mac-myths-1-10-courtesy-of-pc-pro-32-reasons-why-pcs-are-better-than-macs/ That was a particularly bad idea. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:02:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Miito http://mostfoolhardy.org/2007/04/17/32-rebuffed-mac-myths-1-10-courtesy-of-pc-pro-32-reasons-why-pcs-are-better-than-macs/comment-page-1/#comment-1013 Miito Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:26:35 +0000 http://themak.org/2007/04/17/32-rebuffed-mac-myths-1-10-courtesy-of-pc-pro-32-reasons-why-pcs-are-better-than-macs/#comment-1013 Would you consider this article to be representative of the quality of articles in PC PRO now? You mention in your post that `more and more developers are making mac games now'. The key problem at the moment is not that most developers won't develop games for the Mac, but that they /can't/. Actually, it's just prohibitively expensive/complicated to do (read: not a big enough market). The reason for this is the vast majority games that developers produce rely upon having DirectX libraries, hence Windows, on your system. Having more powerful onboard Intel graphics chips on a Mac is /not/ going to make a jot of difference to the number of games which will be brought to the Mac; people have been free to add third party graphics cards (ATi, nVidia) to Macintosh systems for ages. The only thing which having more power graphics will do for you is allow you to play OpenGL games from the past and present. Compare the present situation with how things were about five years ago, with games being released for the Mac subsequent to the Windows release. This is made possible because OpenGL was still widely used at the time as a graphics library for games. Reading back at what I've written above, it's probably important to say that I'm focusing entirely on the commercial world of games. If the Macintosh world is anything like the one I live in (Linux & BSD) then hobbyist game development is more active, accessible, and portable than ever. Would you consider this article to be representative of the quality of articles in PC PRO now?

You mention in your post that `more and more developers are making mac games now’. The key problem at the moment is not that most developers won’t develop games for the Mac, but that they /can’t/. Actually, it’s just prohibitively expensive/complicated to do (read: not a big enough market). The reason for this is the vast majority games that developers produce rely upon having DirectX libraries, hence Windows, on your system. Having more powerful onboard Intel graphics chips on a Mac is /not/ going to make a jot of difference to the number of games which will be brought to the Mac; people have been free to add third party graphics cards (ATi, nVidia) to Macintosh systems for ages. The only thing which having more power graphics will do for you is allow you to play OpenGL games from the past and present.

Compare the present situation with how things were about five years ago, with games being released for the Mac subsequent to the Windows release. This is made possible because OpenGL was still widely used at the time as a graphics library for games.

Reading back at what I’ve written above, it’s probably important to say that I’m focusing entirely on the commercial world of games. If the Macintosh world is anything like the one I live in (Linux & BSD) then hobbyist game development is more active, accessible, and portable than ever.

]]> By: Logan Leger http://mostfoolhardy.org/2007/04/17/32-rebuffed-mac-myths-1-10-courtesy-of-pc-pro-32-reasons-why-pcs-are-better-than-macs/comment-page-1/#comment-1005 Logan Leger Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:16:57 +0000 http://themak.org/2007/04/17/32-rebuffed-mac-myths-1-10-courtesy-of-pc-pro-32-reasons-why-pcs-are-better-than-macs/#comment-1005 What an embarrassing thing to do. PCPRO cannot even consider themself a real journal of anything if they make assertions as such. Good article, themak. Way to keep them one their toes. What an embarrassing thing to do. PCPRO cannot even consider themself a real journal of anything if they make assertions as such. Good article, themak. Way to keep them one their toes.

]]> By: themak http://mostfoolhardy.org/2007/04/17/32-rebuffed-mac-myths-1-10-courtesy-of-pc-pro-32-reasons-why-pcs-are-better-than-macs/comment-page-1/#comment-1004 themak Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:49:37 +0000 http://themak.org/2007/04/17/32-rebuffed-mac-myths-1-10-courtesy-of-pc-pro-32-reasons-why-pcs-are-better-than-macs/#comment-1004 [quote comment="1003"]what a load of crap. though i agree with some of it, most of it is wrong. for example if i my mac didn't have right click, i would have destroyed my laptop. macs have the best mouse. have you seen iphone, well, the mouse thing using two fingers have been in macs for about a year! thats right. if you have a laptop you would know hot awkward clicking or dragging is. in macs, you just tap with one finger for left click, tap with two fingers for right click, and drag anywhere (not just on the corner of the mouse pad like sony laptops) to drag. There are so many reasons why after switching to mac, you will never want to go back. I think, the problem is that people just dont know what better is since they fear change.[/quote] I honestly have no idea what you are trying to say. This post was written in response to the main feature of UK computing magazine PCPRO in which they make the arguments that I've used for the titles. And they are all rebutted within. No, I don't have a macbook so I didn't know that the two finger right click worked. But my ibook doesn't (at least not without custom software modifications). And for the record, my ibook is set to use the pad for scrolling and mouse and the button for clicking and I use the ctrl key with my free hand. Which suits me fine. [quote comment="1003"]what a load of crap. though i agree with some of it, most of it is wrong. for example if i my mac didn’t have right click, i would have destroyed my laptop. macs have the best mouse. have you seen iphone, well, the mouse thing using two fingers have been in macs for about a year! thats right. if you have a laptop you would know hot awkward clicking or dragging is. in macs, you just tap with one finger for left click, tap with two fingers for right click, and drag anywhere (not just on the corner of the mouse pad like sony laptops) to drag.
There are so many reasons why after switching to mac, you will never want to go back. I think, the problem is that people just dont know what better is since they fear change.[/quote]
I honestly have no idea what you are trying to say. This post was written in response to the main feature of UK computing magazine PCPRO in which they make the arguments that I’ve used for the titles. And they are all rebutted within.

No, I don’t have a macbook so I didn’t know that the two finger right click worked. But my ibook doesn’t (at least not without custom software modifications). And for the record, my ibook is set to use the pad for scrolling and mouse and the button for clicking and I use the ctrl key with my free hand. Which suits me fine.

]]> By: zivarik http://mostfoolhardy.org/2007/04/17/32-rebuffed-mac-myths-1-10-courtesy-of-pc-pro-32-reasons-why-pcs-are-better-than-macs/comment-page-1/#comment-1003 zivarik Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:43:44 +0000 http://themak.org/2007/04/17/32-rebuffed-mac-myths-1-10-courtesy-of-pc-pro-32-reasons-why-pcs-are-better-than-macs/#comment-1003 what a load of crap. though i agree with some of it, most of it is wrong. for example if i my mac didn't have right click, i would have destroyed my laptop. macs have the best mouse. have you seen iphone, well, the mouse thing using two fingers have been in macs for about a year! thats right. if you have a laptop you would know hot awkward clicking or dragging is. in macs, you just tap with one finger for left click, tap with two fingers for right click, and drag anywhere (not just on the corner of the mouse pad like sony laptops) to drag. There are so many reasons why after switching to mac, you will never want to go back. I think, the problem is that people just dont know what better is since they fear change. what a load of crap. though i agree with some of it, most of it is wrong. for example if i my mac didn’t have right click, i would have destroyed my laptop. macs have the best mouse. have you seen iphone, well, the mouse thing using two fingers have been in macs for about a year! thats right. if you have a laptop you would know hot awkward clicking or dragging is. in macs, you just tap with one finger for left click, tap with two fingers for right click, and drag anywhere (not just on the corner of the mouse pad like sony laptops) to drag.
There are so many reasons why after switching to mac, you will never want to go back. I think, the problem is that people just dont know what better is since they fear change.

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