Another thought strike me about my last post. If you are a gamer do you need Windows?

In my experience the vast majority of people who play games do so on Windows. Why is this? Well first and foremost is that more games are released for Windows faster than OS X. This is not to say OS X gets no gaming love, but Windows gets it first and sometimes exclusively. It was also interesting to note the difference in performance in the two computers running Call of Duty 4 (from last post’s link). 5 fps (frames per second) does what? You and your human opponent pull the trigger at the same time but because you are using a mac you die. You turn a corner, but your enemy has the drop on you because of how the game is running. If you are a gamer you want to do well. Period. It’s just more fun.

Another thing is that some of my favorite games are older. Freelancer and Homeworld 2 spring to mind. There is no guarantee I could even get those games if I was running OS X, but Windows allows me to play them just like I did when I first played them.

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