He bought the MB Pro. Although he never mentioned which model, I'm guessing the 2.4 Ghz one.

This is the reason why most of us put the hardware specs of our machine(s) in the signature section. It's not (only) to show-off but it gives contextual information when discussing issues relating to performance in apps and games and when troubleshooting.

Even the MacBook (non Pro) would be able the handle Warcraft3.

... dunno bout GunBound though. Not a game I'm familiar with.

Now this gets into my LYN "Greatest Hits" mixtape. I LOL-ed!

In any case...

For those with the new MBP / MBA. Startup with the F2 button depressed: You'll boot into a "hardware check" mode where you can run diagnostics on your RAM, get setup info etc. Interesting.

This post has been edited by MacDaNife: Dec 4 2008, 09:23 PM

Your prior question on this thread was if anyone had a copy of Diablo 3. Now that's forgivable I guess. You could be a non-Blizzard fan, or a non-gamer. I'm certainly not going to berate your for your lack of gamer-cred and ignorance that the game has not seen the light of day beyond the screenies put out by the Blizzard PR crew.

But an ignorance of Leopard? On Apple Byte subforum?

Is there a village somewhere missing its idiot?

Forgawdsakes do some reading before you venture your opinions on a thread.

You'd then be able to state a point of view that is based on some fact rather than pulled out of thin air - this referring of course to that space between your ears.

If you want to compare the MacBooks of two generations past with the present one, you'd realize that the main difference between the two is the inclusion for the first time of a dedicated graphics chip - in this case the nVidia 9400m which of course delivers better gaming performance.

And this will certainly be enough to play a game as undemanding as Warcraft III.

Thanks for wasting 5 mins of my time, checking out your link and actually following it to the nVidia download page. Do you find doing this kinda thing amusing?

For those who have yet to do so - don't bother. It just links to the Windows/Linux drivers.

Mac drivers, as its always been in the past, are issued as software updates from Apple.

This post has been edited by MacDaNife: Dec 22 2008, 01:41 PM

Ok, you can untwist your panties now. Jeez,

If you're going to get this worked up over a clarification to your post (this IS a Mac thread after all) then you've got a lot more grief waiting for you as you grow up.

Don't flatter yourself. I wouldn't threaten you because you're not of consequence to me. Hence not worth taking the effort.

Like I said, I'd like to treat you with respect.

That however is getting difficult but I'll try.

Actually, as a point of clarification, I don't get too worked up over posts on this board. The converse is perhaps true, it's difficult to remain interested in the discussion as it so rarely has useful information and is consequently usually a waste of time and bandwidth. My apologies if I have added to the spam already rife on this thread. My apologies too if I've needlessly provoked Omni, that was not my intention, the reaction was indeed suprising (although I admit, rather amusing).

Since Omni is fond of taking PM messages to the board too, let me share this too:


Now how is it that Malaysians when they get behind a keyboard (or the wheel of a car) feel that it transforms them into someone so strong and powerful that they get the urge to "beat the shit" out of someone who holds a contrary point of view? My point was simple: that if the drivers are for windows, on a Mac thread, please take the time to point that out. In this case would it would actually work on a Mac running XP in BootCamp? That has remained unanswered.

Apple drivers have always come as software updates from Apple. This includes drivers in BootCamp, which are released using the Apple Software Update utility in BootCamp. I'd be interested if the drivers released directly from nVidia do actually work in BootCamp and provide any performance benefit. Has anybody actually installed it?