Hey, what's up guys? Hope it's going good. Anyways, I have not posted in the Minecraft Forums in a very long time. But I had a very important question. Sorry it's kind of a long post.
First off, I would like to say, we are entitled to our own opinion. You may prefer a PC because of it's power, programs or anything else, but I prefer Mac for its simplicity, user-friendliness, and OS X. So, I am fully aware that an iMac cannot be upgraded or changed, or else without difficulty, so it is important to me I have specs good enough for what I want to do. I am definitely sure I want an iMac though, so unless it literally cannot do what I want without very much lag, please don't suggest other things. So, basically I want to spend anywhere from 1 to even 5 hours at the most per day on this computer. I want to be able to do a small amount of photo (not video) editing, small photoshopping, surfing the web with relatively no lag, be able to play flash games with no lag, and be able to play games without lag, and though I don't exactly have to be playing on ultra quality, I definitely will no allow myself to play a game on low or lowest quality. I am planning on playing Call of Duty: Black Ops, Bioshock Infinite, Real Racing 3, Borderlands 2, Batman: Arkham City, and Surgeon Sim 2013. Like I said, I don't need ultra quality, but I won't allow low quality. So, now that we know what I will do with the computer, time to see the computer. I am planning on buying the lesser 27" iMac with no modifications, and if you cannot be troubled with looking it up here are the specs: -27" Screen -OS X Mavericks -3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 processor (Turbo boost up to 3.6GHz) with 6MB L3 Cache -8 (Two 4 GB) of 1600MHz DDR3 Memory -1TB 7200-rpm hard drive -Nvidia Gforce 755M graphics processor with 1GB of GDDR5 memory -Facetime Camera I would like to let you know that I am planning on not getting the wireless keyboard and wireless magic mouse or trackpad, and am planning on getting the wired keyboard and another mouse along the way. Thanks for all the help, and again, sorry for the extremely long post. Ask anything you need to help! Sorry if i forgot anything.
You can build a hackintosh with all of the features of a Mac with more power and a lower price. If you plan on playing those games at native resolution on an iMac which uses a mobile graphics card you're not going to have great framerates.
You can build a hackintosh with all of the features of a Mac with more power and a lower price. If you plan on playing those games at native resolution on an iMac which uses a mobile graphics card you're not going to have great framerates.
Well you also need to be perfectly aware what your looking for wont be found in an iMac the GTX775M falls inbetween the GTX750M and GTX760M and as you can see your looking at fairly terrible performance http://www.anandtech.com/show/7287/analyzing-the-price-of-mobility-desktops-vs-laptops/3 If you want OSX I would recommend you build a Hackintosh this way you can have a much more powerful machine and still get OSX and it wont cost you $1800 either
How do you plan on playing Windows-only games on an iMac? If you're boot-camping Windows that kind of defeats the "simplicity and user-friendliness" of OSX, doesn't it? I know I can't force you, but if you want to play the games you mentioned, I would STRONGLY recommend you build a Windows PC, if just for the fact that those games won't run on Mac OSX so you'll be using Windows anyways.
First of all, I have seen all those games on the Mac App Store, so they are most definitely on OS X.
Next, you say building a hackintosh is cheaper, and more powerful. If i am correct, a hackintosh is a PC built to run OS X. Where would I get OS X to build with? Also, how much cheaper are we talking, and how much more powerful?
First of all, I have seen all those games on the Mac App Store, so they are most definitely on OS X.
Next, you say building a hackintosh is cheaper, and more powerful. If i am correct, a hackintosh is a PC built to run OS X. Where would I get OS X to build with? Also, how much cheaper are we talking, and how much more powerful?
depends on specs chosen, as does power (so looking at how expensive the imac is, you have a pretty big budget, so probably about 10X if not more (Also, STOP WRITING IN BLUE TEXT, there's no reason for it)
Anyways, to make a Hackintosh, am I correct in thinking that I would build a PC as normal, but just install OS X instead of Windows. If so, that probably what I am doing.
Anyways, to make a Hackintosh, am I correct in thinking that I would build a PC as normal, but just install OS X instead of Windows. If so, that probably what I am doing.
That's almost as it goes. There's just a lot of nitpicking you'll have to do to find the compatible parts for OSX.
Call of Duty: Black Ops isn't on Mac.(Real Racing 3 is an iOS/Android game. Where did you get the idea to play it on Mac?)
Okay, I'm really trying to not be offensive right now, but are you trolling or just being stupid? Call of Duty: Black Ops is like on the front page of the Mac App Store, just scroll down a bit. It was re-released by Ayspr (I think that's what it's called), which is a company thats job is to re-release Windows games, on OS X. I literally saw my brother playing it on his Macbook Pro earlier today, and I know he didn't do bootcamp. As for Real Racing 3, sorry I was mistaken, but I could have sworn I saw it on the App Store.
Hackintoshing is stupid unless you absolutely need OS X for reason Y because of the extremely limited component selection. You're basically stuck with GTX 700 cards and Ivy Bridge processors.
if you really want mac os x, then just make an intel windows pc (at your budget, this is an easy thing to do) and then run mac os x in a virtual machine (as i guarentee, that the unoffcial port of all these games that are supposed to be windows only, are full of bugs (also, probably illegal, because of the fact that there not ported by the creator's of said games
Yes, the iMac will be just fine for the games you listed.
No, the 755m isn't really powerful enough for Borderlands 2 or Bioshock infinite. I mean, it will run at low settings at 1080p reasonably well. But I doubt it's going to get you much more than 30 FPS. I'd really go for a 775m here in the $2000 iMac.
Or you know, build hackintosh and save $500.
EDIT: Plus the 1 GB of vram on the 755m is NOT enough by any stretch of the imagination to run games on the 1440p screen that the iMac has. Maybe if he bumped the resolution down to 1080p he could do it, but seriously, why get a 1440p screen if you aren't even gonna use it?
EDIT2: So basically I'd get the 775m minimum, it's a fair jump up from the 755m. If possible I'd get the 780m, because the 4 GB of RAM will really come in handy at that resolution, but it's not necessary.
First off, I would like to say, we are entitled to our own opinion. You may prefer a PC because of it's power, programs or anything else, but I prefer Mac for its simplicity, user-friendliness, and OS X.
So, I am fully aware that an iMac cannot be upgraded or changed, or else without difficulty, so it is important to me I have specs good enough for what I want to do. I am definitely sure I want an iMac though, so unless it literally cannot do what I want without very much lag, please don't suggest other things. So, basically I want to spend anywhere from 1 to even 5 hours at the most per day on this computer. I want to be able to do a small amount of photo (not video) editing, small photoshopping, surfing the web with relatively no lag, be able to play flash games with no lag, and be able to play games without lag, and though I don't exactly have to be playing on ultra quality, I definitely will no allow myself to play a game on low or lowest quality.
I am planning on playing Call of Duty: Black Ops, Bioshock Infinite, Real Racing 3, Borderlands 2, Batman: Arkham City, and Surgeon Sim 2013. Like I said, I don't need ultra quality, but I won't allow low quality. So, now that we know what I will do with the computer, time to see the computer.
I am planning on buying the lesser 27" iMac with no modifications, and if you cannot be troubled with looking it up here are the specs:
-27" Screen
-OS X Mavericks
-3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 processor (Turbo boost up to 3.6GHz) with 6MB L3 Cache
-8 (Two 4 GB) of 1600MHz DDR3 Memory
-1TB 7200-rpm hard drive
-Nvidia Gforce 755M graphics processor with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
-Facetime Camera
I would like to let you know that I am planning on not getting the wireless keyboard and wireless magic mouse or trackpad, and am planning on getting the wired keyboard and another mouse along the way. Thanks for all the help, and again, sorry for the extremely long post. Ask anything you need to help! Sorry if i forgot anything.
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First of all, I have seen all those games on the Mac App Store, so they are most definitely on OS X.
Next, you say building a hackintosh is cheaper, and more powerful. If i am correct, a hackintosh is a PC built to run OS X. Where would I get OS X to build with? Also, how much cheaper are we talking, and how much more powerful?
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(Also, STOP WRITING IN BLUE TEXT, there's no reason for it)
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Anyways, to make a Hackintosh, am I correct in thinking that I would build a PC as normal, but just install OS X instead of Windows. If so, that probably what I am doing.
That's almost as it goes. There's just a lot of nitpicking you'll have to do to find the compatible parts for OSX.
"Programmers never repeat themselves. They loop."
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No, the 755m isn't really powerful enough for Borderlands 2 or Bioshock infinite. I mean, it will run at low settings at 1080p reasonably well. But I doubt it's going to get you much more than 30 FPS. I'd really go for a 775m here in the $2000 iMac.
Or you know, build hackintosh and save $500.
EDIT: Plus the 1 GB of vram on the 755m is NOT enough by any stretch of the imagination to run games on the 1440p screen that the iMac has. Maybe if he bumped the resolution down to 1080p he could do it, but seriously, why get a 1440p screen if you aren't even gonna use it?
EDIT2: So basically I'd get the 775m minimum, it's a fair jump up from the 755m. If possible I'd get the 780m, because the 4 GB of RAM will really come in handy at that resolution, but it's not necessary.