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I Want To Game On A Powerbook

· Troubleshooting · 35 posts · May 10, 2005 — May 17, 2005 View original thread ↗

#31 Tue, 17 May 2005 - 10:07

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Originally Posted by skelotar

Sounds like there's a lot of whining about not being able to play games? Instead of sitting around and crying about it, why don't we start a petition? I'm sure apple would take a serious look at the situation.

I am not sure if you are serious about that. But if so, do you think that Apple has some secret systems sitting somewhere in the campus, waiting a petition to be delivered? No, we are where we are since Apple has nothing better right now. When and once they have, they will immediately release it.

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20 - 45 year old men whining about not being able to play games on their professional-level laptop.
Not to say that you shouldn't. But seriously. Xbox / PS2 are all out gaming machines. On my system, I don't want a one stop shop. I want a computer for doing real work and a gaming machine to play games. Simple as that.

For most people the problem is not exactly if you can play games or not. Just being able to play recent games is a good measure of how efficient and powerful the platfrom is (both hardware- and software-wise). And as we speak, the once Powerbooks are not so much... Power.

And then there are people that really enjoy playing games in their Powerbooks. What is wrong with that?

#32 Tue, 17 May 2005 - 10:19

<quote>I am not sure if you are serious about that. But if so...</quote>
You're right, I was being sarcastic

.. Apple could care less about the small minority of apple users that want to play games.

Nothing is wrong with people wanting to play games on their powerbooks. But this is the wrong place to whine about it, because nothing is going to get done on this forum. Yes, I know apple may read this, but this thread is more of a rant than anything else.

Apple knows thier powerbooks aren't leading the industry in computing power. We all know it. Ok.. so if you don't like it, or can't accept it, get a pc and be happy.

powerbooks suck at games now and forever more

(until the hardware is updated and more developers relase games for our platform)

we're beating the decaying remains of a dead horse.

#33 Tue, 17 May 2005 - 10:24

My PB plays games just fine when I'm in the mod and don't want to fire up the XBox.

#34 Tue, 17 May 2005 - 18:25

XBox, PS2, I can't carry around a TV with me, and I don't want to game on a tiny screen (PSP).
Apple has only doubled the PowerBook's system bus speeds since 1998. 82 MHz in 1998. 167 MHz in 2005. Bandwidth doesn't matter. Graphics performance doesn't matter. Oh well, back to the spreadsheet. Glad I have so much "power".

#35 Tue, 17 May 2005 - 21:47

me too my pb 1.67 rocks. with tiger the ui and all around apps are about as fast as my dual g5 2.0.

it looks like a new nintendo and xbox and ps3 were just announced.