Gave up Trying to Play Eve on a Mac
I took the step today and bought a pc. I’ve been using Macs for about six years now. I was so amazed when I bought my first Mac, with its software that actually worked and its operating system that didn’t crash every ten minutes, that I swore I would never spend my hard earned money on another PC computer. Eve Online finally did me in.
If they had just not offered a Mac version of the game, I would have been fine. I would have lived my life with a Macbook Pro and always enjoyed its stable and effective operation. But no. Instead CCP offers a Mac version of their game that works just barely good enough for us poor Mac nerds to realize what we are missing.
What we are missing is a computer that can actually play games. Anybody who tries to play video games on a Macbook Pro quickly becomes alarmed at the sound of its cooling fans ramping up to beat the devil, just before the video card goes Ka-floppo and turns the screen white, which is probably the same color as the overheated GPU. It’s strange, I could probably re-record Physical Graffiti on this thing without breaking a sweat, but flying cartoon space ships around is not going to happen.
So I went out and bought a lower priced “gaming” laptop, one of the Gateway FX series: 17 inch screen, 4 megs of ram, and a 1 gig video card. We’ll see how it compares as soon as I have time to stop grading papers and fire that bad boy up.
See you all in Yona. Vrooooom.
