Half Life 2 on a Mac

I've always been on Windows PC's, mostly because upgrading is a snap, needed to cling on to the graphics-requierments of newer and stronger games. I was considering the MacBook Pro as my next computer as I'm mighty impressed by OSX, but these news were the last nails in that coffin. Maybe there will be drivers released soon, fixing modern in-game graphics/physics/ai for the Macs, but in about six months the machine is in over it's head.

Frankly I can't see why a dedicated gamer should buy Macs for a while still. Sucks not to afford both, though. Beautiful portable workhorse indeed.

How about older games, I want to play Ragnarok Online and it only requires less than 1 ghz PC to work...

Yes. When you boot XP on your Mac, the NTFS partition can be infected with spyware.

If you need more info, e-mail me.

booting xp on a mac....spyware and adware problems possible since it's not the unix code anymore??? just wondering.

Remember guys, for now, you CANNOT play HL2 or any high power game on a MBP. The video driver support just isn't there yet.

However, if you do find yourself bored, you may find it a good idea to load your games now, s that when the drivers are out, you can just boot up and play.

better video quality would be nice...

but yeah dual booting does look good, and it clearly demonstrates how the whole boot up process works clearly- I was unsure of how it would look/work...

Are there any drivers that you can get to make sure the fans work in XP?

#8: Is there a video of a Mac mini running XP games?

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yup.. HL2 actually.. on Youtube..

you know.. Mac mini is not for gaming.. just get an iMac and put Win XP on it dual boot....

obviously.. the reason you would get a Mac at all is for all the other stuff besides gaming that you want.. iLife, virus-free, crash-free, an OS light years ahead of windows..

if you don't care about that stuff.. you wouldn't have read this story

Mac fans do work under XP.

From the Wiki:

Update: On a MacBook Pro (1.83 GHz), testing with an infrared thermometer has verified that case temperatures running Windows XP under moderate use (browsing, general application use) do not exceed (and are generally lower than) the upper ranges of what the same system runnig Mac OS X already hits under heavy load (playing 1080HD Quicktime video trailers). For heavy load testing on XP, running two Prime 95 instances with CPU affinity set to fully load both cores (torture test, max heat generation), fans come on and increase speed, resulting in upper temperatures that still do not exceed Mac OS X highs. Will be retesting OSX with CPU-only loading for more even comparison, but the take-home so far is that XP is not causing problematic overheating on a 1.83 MacBook Pro.

I'm surprised Half-Life 2 runs at all. I didn't know it supported software rendering.

Will be very nice to see X1600 drivers.

There's a poll over at http://forum.onmac.net/showthread.php?t=300 to determine whether a cash incentive should be offered.

Yes, this all seems good, and yes it is possible that for some people the possibility of double booting will have them go out and buy themselves a Mac, but have u guys considered what apple has always been saying, "we are a hardware company". Maybe with people interested in garbage microsoft products, they will only be a hardware company. Hopefully this doesn't come true, but I would prepare for the worst.