BF2S Forums Does any1 know if BF2 will be realeased on MACs?

Dont know. let ur friend download the Demo and try it for himself

No, it will not be. Guaranteed.

However, tell him to get a newer intel mac and throw windows on it as a dual boot. Then he can play it all he wants.

what chuy said.

Intel macs can run boot camp which will enable them to dual boot it with windows xp.

chuyskywalker wrote:

No, it will not be. Guaranteed.

However, tell him to get a newer intel mac and throw windows on it as a dual boot. Then he can play it all he wants.

Easy to say, expensive to do!... In his words

my friend wrote:

i know about that, but forking out over a £1000 on a new mac just to have bf2 on it and not have most of the existing mac software not work on it is just pure insanity

Last edited by liquidat0r (2006-05-04 15:12:18)

liquidat0r wrote:

chuyskywalker wrote:

No, it will not be. Guaranteed.

However, tell him to get a newer intel mac and throw windows on it as a dual boot. Then he can play it all he wants.

Easy to say, expensive to do!... In his words

my friend wrote:

i know about that, but forking out over a £1000 on a new mac just to have bf2 on it and not have most of the existing mac software not work on it is just pure insanity

heh
Intel Imac 17 inch is 1299.  add some ram and it would be good to go for bf2.

not cheap, but probably the cheapest mac way to go about it.  Too bad you cant upgrade the video in the mini.

Macs make me want to kill babies, enough said. the programs are good, but dear lord the OS sucks soo hard. i hate OSX so fucking much ASHJFDASIOHDFIAOWEI

chuyskywalker wrote:

No, it will not be. Guaranteed.

However, tell him to get a newer intel mac and throw windows on it as a dual boot. Then he can play it all he wants.

Im gonna go with that

chuyskywalker wrote:

Wow, you can't honestly be comparing OSX to Windows and saying that, right? Even my most hardcore windows friends admit that OSX is a better (faster, easier, less virus prone, smoother, etc) OS than windows -- the world just runs on windows, so they stick to it.

Maybe you run linux or something, but trying to say "windows xp > mac osx" is pure insanity. Saying "run windows so you can share in the misery with 90% of the world" would be right.

i hate ALL opterating systems, lets put it that way. i use Macs for my digital production class at school. i just dont like it, because i hate Steve Jobs. why that makes me hate Macs i have absolutely no idea, because in my head i know that OSX > windows in general, but the left side of my brain doesnt agree with the right on most occasions.

and yes, i started using Linux, and yes, i had toast for breakfast

stryyker wrote:

Macs make me want to kill babies, enough said. the programs are good, but dear lord the OS sucks soo hard. i hate OSX so fucking much ASHJFDASIOHDFIAOWEI

Same here. I wanna shoot myself each time I have to use it.

hi there, im the person in context. as i said before, im not forking out over a grand to just play bf2 (as much as i want to). but its not just the cost of the system, i then need to have a legit copy of windows on there (would never run any tripe across a mac) id then need to have all antivrus stuff again etc etc and it all adds up.
shouldnt realy of started this topic as there is always gunna be flaming between the two os. i think its cause you all love windows so muh becaus of the crap that you can get for them,with a mac its all about simplicity, ease and it actualy works.
eiher way, i think if i get hold of the cash at some point, il probably have a power mac under my belt/a new windows pc pureley for games and genral crap.

thanks any way though

Last edited by madmanluke (2006-05-04 23:57:41)

chuyskywalker wrote:

liquidat0r wrote:

my friend wrote:

i know about that, but forking out over a £1000 on a new mac just to have bf2 on it and not have most of the existing mac software not work on it is just pure insanity

>.< All current mac software works on the new intel macs just fine. Additionally, the ability to tab rotate between three or FOUR operating systems is a pretty serious selling point, no?

stryyker wrote:

Macs make me want to kill babies, enough said. the programs are good, but dear lord the OS sucks soo hard. i hate OSX so fucking much ASHJFDASIOHDFIAOWEI

Wow, you can't honestly be comparing OSX to Windows and saying that, right? Even my most hardcore windows friends admit that OSX is a better (faster, easier, less virus prone, smoother, etc) OS than windows -- the world just runs on windows, so they stick to it.

Maybe you run linux or something, but trying to say "windows xp > mac osx" is pure insanity. Saying "run windows so you can share in the misery with 90% of the world" would be right.

For me, I prefer Windows to MacOS.  I'm a Unix admin by trade so you'd figure I'd like this whole new Mac thing, right?  If I want to run a Unix workstation, I'll install a copy of Linux. 

I just can't stand the gui.  I was building Mac's back in the 7.x and 8.x days along with PC and Unix work.  Never cared for it.  With OSX, it's still much the same as before but with the jelly bean look to it and a dock, that I also don't care for, thrown in.  To top things off, the stupid top bar is still there and, last I played with OSX, still could not be put on auto-hide.  You still have to buy a 3rd party mouse to get more than the one button and I don't even find the mouse all that comfortable.  Then there's the Mach microkernel which has well-documented performance issues.

Last, I don't like Apple.  I can't stand Microsoft but I dislike Apple even more because of their pompous attitude that tends to make its way to their fanbase.  I don't trust either company but Microsoft tries less to cover up that they're douche's than Apple.  Let's face it, that joke thing about the " Apple iThing" with some info like, "what is it?  Does it matter?  You'll buy just about any piece of pretty, shiny, plastic we put out" has a fair bit of truth to it.

In the end, I get more functionality and ease of use out of my PC.  Yup, I've gotta throw a virus scanner on there as well as anti-spyware.  That's part of the price you pay for being the most popular platform.  I also get a wider array of software and an even larger selection of games to play.

As for emulating BF2 on a non-Intel based Mac.  I question that a bit.  First, I'd want to know how the emulator handles multiple cpu's.  Does Windows see the multiple cpu's?  If so, you may well need to set processor affinity for BF2 as there's been known issues with the game on multi-cpu systems.  That would mean that you're only using one proc on a dual proc machine and having to emulate.  That would hurt a bit.  Microsoft doesn't suggest using Virtual PC for running PC games, either ;)

Last edited by niomosy (2006-05-05 13:22:02)

i have a G4 to power pro tools, but have found myself using it for alot more. Great machine. You just have to open it up (whole insides come out at the turn of a key) to see the difference in build quality compaired to a pc.
When you use OSX a while you find yourself saying, quite often, "why dosent XP do that" or "that makes sence"