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oroberts 01-26-2007 01:44 PM

Sounds good! Might have to look into getting it.

Are there any other good games for Mac that people would recommend?

schneb 01-26-2007 01:48 PM

Why just go with what is available for the Mac? You have an Inteller there. Use BootCamp and play any PC game you want! :) Battlefield 2 is excellent game play.

http://www.ea.com/official/battlefie...d2/us/home.jsp

This one is due out in March...

http://battlefield.ea.com/battlefield/bf/

oroberts 01-26-2007 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by schneb (Post 352462)
Why just go with what is available for the Mac? You have an Inteller there. Use BootCamp and play any PC game you want!

That's a good idea! I'll need to buy an XP disc though so I can install Windows. Might buy one if I get Leopard. :D

oroberts

schneb 01-26-2007 02:11 PM

Look around for someone who has an old PC that is not working. Usually they have an install disk. I had a gaming laptop that went south, and I used the installer on BootCamp, and was able to use my laptop's hard drive (and all installed games) via a little firewire housing. I was then able to play all my installed games. It was amazing!

oroberts 01-26-2007 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by schneb (Post 352468)
Look around for someone who has an old PC that is not working. Usually they have an install disk. I had a gaming laptop that went south, and I used the installer on BootCamp, and was able to use my laptop's hard drive (and all installed games) via a little firewire housing. I was then able to play all my installed games. It was amazing!

Cool! I will see if I can find a disk from someone who is no longer using their computer. I had a quick look on Amazon. There seem to be so many different types of XP disk - I really dont wanna buy the wrong one!! Also looked at PC world - £199 / $390!!! I can't afford that! Is that a standard sort of price?

oroberts

schneb 01-26-2007 03:16 PM

Silly, isn't it? You might be looking at the Pro edition and not the home edition.

As long as you get the registration number, any home edition of XP should work fine in BootCamp. Create a post under Applications and ask everyone to help you get started on BootCamp. You will get some good info that way.

oroberts 01-26-2007 03:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by schneb (Post 352483)
Silly, isn't it? You might be looking at the Pro edition and not the home edition.

As long as you get the registration number, any home edition of XP should work fine in BootCamp. Create a post under Applications and ask everyone to help you get started on BootCamp. You will get some good info that way.

Yeah OK. It would be good to have it available for the rare times I need Windows!

oroberts

GavinBKK 01-27-2007 04:31 AM

Only 1 Gig of RAM?

My Intel Macs run dogpoo slow on just the single Gig. See how you go but I got fed up with the beachball - oh and don,t even think of running Parallels with only one in there.
:-)
Gavin


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