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- iHaveNet.com: Gaming
Evan Narcisse, Crispy Gamer Videogame Reviews
I'm not really a PC-gaming guy.
I've written almost exclusively about games on home consoles.
I bear no ill will to those who do, but I've never wanted to swap out graphics cards, video cards, sound cards or other components to get the optimal experience out of a game. Crysis remains a mystery to me.
And, well, the other reason is because I use Macs.
I've messed around with Windows, but I've never let it into my home. But, in the name of science, dear Crispy Readers, I'm sacrificing the
virginity of my month-old 13-inch MacBook Pro to the
1. Go to Boot Camp.
One of the big reasons videogames never took off on Macintosh platforms was because they used a different combination of hardware and software than Windows-based machines. When Apple decided to start using
2. Back that thing up.
This one's obvious, but you'll want to back up any important files and applications you have in OS X. Nothing is guaranteed here, and it's a smart step if you need to recover things.
3. Open up those windows.
Boot Camp partitions your hard drive, creating a section where you'll install
4. Turn on the power.
Once the Windows install is complete, you'll be good to go. I loaded up Ubisoft's "Dawn of Discovery" and was surprised at the amount of disc space -- 6 GB -- the game needed. Remember that whole part above about choosing your partition size wisely? Yeah.
There are some caveats to PC gaming on your Apple computer.
There's no easy switch between the partitions. You'll have to shut down your computer every time you want to go back and forth. And, even if you installed drivers for mice, controllers or other game-related devices on the OS X side of your machine, you'll need to do it all over again for Windows.
Macs are not infinitely configurable computers, either: For the most part, the machine you buy is the machine you're stuck with. The newer 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros offer a mode that utilizes the more powerful, built-in
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