My mate just bought a MAC

fastwunz · 14 Sep 2009 at 20:44

............... to play World of Warcrat.

£1400 and it only comes with an Nvidia 120 something.

Walked into that one eh?

'oooooh its white and shiny - it must be good. Yes please sir, ill pay through the nose, elbo, ankle, shoulders, feet and butt ring, for that fashion statement'.

I could have throttled him, even more so when he tried to convince me that NO PC on the market is as powerful (ready built) as a MAC for that money.

Forehead slapping momment of astronomically massive proportions.

dr4g0nf1y · 14 Sep 2009 at 20:46

good choice, that'll play much faster than on a pc and look much better

Mac 1 - 0 PC

Russinating · 14 Sep 2009 at 20:47

Unfortunately there's more like him.

[timko] · 14 Sep 2009 at 20:48

I bet he didn't even buy it through the lower-Student discount (the one where you don't have to prove you are a student or be on campus) site did he?

Hate · 14 Sep 2009 at 20:50

His money, his choice, a mac plays WoW perfectly fine.

Kearney_1988 · 14 Sep 2009 at 20:50

you need new friends

fastwunz · 14 Sep 2009 at 20:52

Hate said:
His money, his choice, a mac plays WoW perfectly fine.

yes it does. So does a PC for £500.

Viper² · 14 Sep 2009 at 20:53

Hate said:
His money, his choice, a mac plays WoW perfectly fine.

Mine doesn't... really... :confused:

fastwunz · 14 Sep 2009 at 20:53

MACS are great for video editing, and all that jazz.

Its the basis on which he bought it that makes him a moron.

RecD · 14 Sep 2009 at 20:56

Logsi · 14 Sep 2009 at 20:58

Oh my god.

Who cares. I can afford a Mac so i bought one.

I don't care if i could have bought a disposable PC for £500, it's still junk.

Mine plays WoW fine also.

I do agree that in the iMac you should at least get the top of the range GFX upgrade to the HD4850.

Frapple · 14 Sep 2009 at 20:59

Bad day for proving natural selection.

Hate · 14 Sep 2009 at 21:03

fastwunz said:
MACS are great for video editing, and all that jazz.

Its the basis on which he bought it that makes him a moron.

Yeah, they also do other stuff too, and it's not an acronym, no caps needed.

I refer to my previous point, his money, his choice.

Viper² said:
Mine doesn't... really...

An old intel mac mini plays it just fine...

kablooey · 14 Sep 2009 at 21:08

Tell him he should have bought the mac book wheel.

randal · 14 Sep 2009 at 21:09

WoW will run on an Intel GMA x3100 all day long. Although I can't help but think he'll end up using his shiny Mac for some other stuff...

Incidentally OP, do you chastise nice car owners for using their car to drive to work too?

Logsi · 14 Sep 2009 at 21:12

Infact, the new iMac isn't white so it's showing your ignorance to the computer right there.

Viper² · 14 Sep 2009 at 21:12

Hate said:
An old intel mac mini plays it just fine...

I have a 2.4GHz Macbook and the FPS on WoW is shoddy. It's hardly playable.

Hate · 14 Sep 2009 at 21:15

My late 2006 2.16Ghz MBP is fine at 1440x990, perfectly playable and an old Mac Mini with the Intel GPU will play it past 'hardly playable' frame rates - perhaps yours is faulty or something.

-BA- · 14 Sep 2009 at 21:16

Guys we just have to accept that there are people out there who like their computer to match their kettle

. Oh and when they come looking for help with how to upgrade it or mend it you get to say, "Sorry it's a Mac, don't know anything about them. Want to buy my second hand pc parts?"

fastwunz · 14 Sep 2009 at 21:18

Erm, i thought people might appreciate the fact that paying £1400 for a mac to play wow was over the top. I was not slagging a mac off. For £1400 i would want a good graphcs card. Not a poop one.

dirty fanboys the lot of you. Oh and a £500 pc wont be junk. be serious. It would be probs as powerful actually just without the fancy mac software, which at the end of the day, combined with the pretty image, is what you pay for on top of the basic pc component price.