A Mac is an ecosystem. Apple hardware is designed to run Mac OS X. Mac OS X is designed to run on Apple hardware. This is the source of Apple’s stability and reliability. It’s what makes Apple different from other hardware vendors. No messing around with drivers for graphics cards, network cards, sound cards. No incompatibilities or hardware issues. It just works. This is also Apple’s business model, which they try and protect. Of course, this isn’t a golden solution. By limiting the hardware to a subset of what’s out there, there’s a limited range of products. Sometimes this hardware is slow to change, or quite unique and unlike anything on the market, which gives rise to the perception that Macs are over priced.
I’d argue that the main benefit (if you can discount the hardware/software relationship) is Mac OS X. Based on that, what if you could run Mac OS X on generic hardware? Would you buy a Mac? What if running Mac OS X on generic hardware could be reliable? Would it be worth it or would it invalidate the purpose of a Mac and Mac OS X?
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Fancy some retro gaming against thousands of other players through your browser?
Quake Live open beta this Tuesday. May the fraggin’ begin across the globe in offices, homes and schools.
That is all.
Transgaming have announced Prince of Persia and Shaun White Snow Boarding for Mac, this March:
Today Ubisoft announced that it has expanded its portfolio of Mac titles for digital download and will introduce Mac versions of its games to retail through its partnership with TransGaming Inc. (TSX-V: TNG), a leading developer of portability technologies for the electronic entertainment industry.
Ubisoft will release the award-winning Prince of Persia and Shaun White Snowboarding to the Mac community in March 2009 via Ubisoft’s online digital store, GameTree Online and at traditional retail locations. Mac versions of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation™: Hard Evidence™, Rayman Raving Rabbids® and Petz® Sports will also be released at select retail establishments for the first time in March 2009.
“The Mac community has responded very positively to our previous game offerings and we’re excited to provide Mac users with a new selection of games through our relationship with TransGaming,” said Andy Swanson, senior director of strategic sales and partnerships at Ubisoft.
“Ubisoft has an exceptional portfolio of titles that spans an assortment of genres. The availability of their titles on the Mac is a great catalyst for Mac gaming,” commented Vikas Gupta, CEO and president of TransGaming.
Check out Ubisoft’s website for a very cool (and expensive looking) intro to the game. Interesting that the intro features the Tree of Life, which looks remarkably similar to the GameTree Online logo, a tree of life for Mac gaming. Oh the depth of it all!
N’er heard of Shaun White Snowboarding, but I’ll take a gander.
I had another look around for Sims 3 information and finally found something on EA’s website. I looked last week, didn’t find a thing. This week, the information comes to me. I’m in the zone.
Press release here:
The Sims 3, developed by The Sims Studio, is also in development for Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch and mobile devices.
From the press release it seems that the title isn’t being wrapped up in Transgaming’s Cider technology or ported by Aspyr. An interesting move, as every other Sims title has been ported and released at a later date than the PC version.
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