MacNewsWorld has a pretty good in-depth overview up about Mac gaming: where it's at and where it's headed. The basic story is that the three things that have historically held Mac gaming back behind PCs (the technology differences, the OS, and the smaller installed base) are slowly disappearing. With Apple's switch from PowerPC to Intel, the introduction of Boot Camp and increasingly easy development in OS X, and the growing popularity of the platform, gaming is actually bigger on the Mac than it's ever been.But there is still a huge obstacle, and that is DirectX. Though there are ways around it (Freeverse actually mentions the Unity engine in the article), many developers are stuck developing in DirectX, and that leaves the Mac platform out of the loop. And there really isn't anything comparable to it in OS X, either. Graphics hardware remains a problem, but that just harkens back to the biggest problem of getting games on the Mac: support from Apple. Some developers say that there aren't games on the Mac because Steve doesn't want them there, and until Apple shows evidence to the contrary, PC will always be the gamers' platform of choice.
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We're getting closer and closer to the end of the year, and that means it's almost time for everyone to announce their "best tech product of the year" awards. Gadget website T3 has 
As often happens with new and fantastic technology products with a lot of hype associated with them get released, someone immediately wants to take them apart to see what's inside. Such is the case at 
Are you dying for a sneak peek at Leopard, the next incarnation
of OS X? If so, book a ticket for San Francisco in mid-August. Apple has announced, on its site and by email to
customers, that it will offer a preview of OS X Leopard at 
Intel sounds
excited about their relationship with Apple, as Deborah Conrad, vice president and director of Team Apple at Intel,
spoke positively to a group of CNET editors yesterday about how things are going so far. Deborah was doubtful that an
Intel chip would be powering the iPod anytime soon, but she mentioned the company was enthusiastic about the potential
for their chips to show up in other future Apple gadgets. Thanks Deborah - I'm sure in the coming weeks the rumors
sites will crank out all sorts of fantastic nonsense from that statement.
Another
day, another 
Firefox,
inarguably, is one of the coolest browsers available and a necessity if you're using Windows. On OS X however, I've
been on the fence during Firefox's existence as there are a number of ways that Firefox and Mozilla have gone wrong and
ruined the browser's user experience.
