Gaming on iOS and Apple is a JOKE. You're kidding yourself if you think that is acceptable.
Two problems. One is that you have to buy and use god-awful Windows 10 (spyware galore in Win10, which is acting like Malware these days installing itself on people's computers without their explicit consent so even if you have Windows 8, good luck keeping it).
Two is that Windows does not and cannot make your POS GPU any better than the silicon die it's cast on. Mac GPUs are SO weak that there isn't a single Mac that is capable of handling virtual reality. Macs may often come first when it comes to CPUs from Intel, but WTF do you need the fastest CPU for these days? I admit Apple is doing their best to make OS X slow as molasses, particularly with older spinning hard drives (HUGE slow down since Mavericks for NO REASON WHAT-SO-EVER other than planned obsolescence) but this idea of having the best CPUs in an era where GPUs are what really matter is ridiculous. But then you think playing Angry Birds on your iPhone is "gaming" so WTF cares what you think.
Wow. You updated your Facebook page and tweeted about lunch? Yeah, that's impressive.
You're right. A typical $800 PC is BETTER than a POS iMac with a SLOOOOW mobile GPU in an unreasonably thin (for no reason) case that cannot handle heat dissipation for 5K use (try that Windows "game" on it and listen to the fans ROAR). Or even compare it to the Mac Pro since it's now hopelessly outdated to where a well chosen $800 PC could give the base model a run for its money in most areas. Sorry, but that's the TRUTH. I gather you can't handle the truth or you wouldn't need to call it garbage.
Frankly, your views on computers are so typical of the Apple "kool-aid" on these forums by people who think a power computer is an overpriced phone (which is funny since the $48 Lumia 640 is 1/10 the cost of an iPhone 5 and just as powerful. If Microsoft weren't as inept with mobile software as Apple is with desktop hardware, it would be quite the deal. But hey, your Facebook drama is calling your name. Better put that $2500 Mac to good use doing something $300 PC can do probably a 1990s Amiga 4000 with a few upgrades.
So you're saying non-gamers would prefer to have SLOOOOOOOOWWW graphics at 5K for EVERYTHING but web pages than having a system that can actually manage to move the pixels when asked to? Or do you actually believe that only gaming requires a decent GPU? If so, I suggest taking a 1980s beginner class on computer graphics.
Really, there is nothing else worth saying about such a ridiculous comment from someone that is trying to look smart putting down gaming by stating things that are just plain absurd.
WTF is the "creative market" ??? They already tossed the Pro "creative" markets when they released Final Cut X and the new Mac Pro (that ignores Pro needs and caters to consumer video editing only). Frankly, I find your comment ludicrous. A good computer is a good computer. A slow GPU is bad news even if you don't play any games these days. Apple is still pushing solid state hard drives in several of its models while the OS has suddenly slowed for spinning hard drive use for no apparent reason since Yosemite was released (and never improved since). I mean I've heard this "Mac users don't game" argument for a decade now and it's bullcrap nonsense. A LOT of Mac users game with their Macs. Sadly, they often have to play 2 year old games because their brand new computer has a slow POS GPU for no good reason what-so-ever. That's right. Apple could easily build an iMac suited to gaming (even if you have to boot into Windows to do it) and it wouldn't cost more than any other "option" they've offered over the years (like an i7 instead of an i5) because a "good" GPU doesn't cost that much ($300 at most) and if they weren't so INSANE about making things THIN that don't NEED to be thin (like desktops where it doesn't matter if it's 1mm thick or 5 inches thick) it wouldn't be an issue. They're BAD DESIGNS. PERIOD.
But keep putting out that big money for a slower GPU than a stock Windows machine at Best Buy has. It won't save Apple's stock from continuing to tank over then next few years.
People should just admit the truth. Apple's hardware sucks these days. They've purposely gone out of their way to make every single model more and more impossible to do even the most mundane of upgrades (e.g. larger, faster hard drive) for no reason other than planned obsolescence (witness the nice 2012 Mac Mini design turned into a POS with purposely PITA access and no i7 or quad-core option when the 2012 design was great. There is NO GOOD REASON to turn that computer into a POS other than to try and force people to buy a more expensive model, even though most people don't need more monitors that are thrown out when they still work fine; i.e. the iMac) and exactly ZERO other headless models to choose from (other than the non-consumer massively overpriced Mac Pro that is already hopelessly outdated).
Ah, but Apple fanatics can never admit Apple makes bad engineering decisions. They can never admit they're overpriced. They can never admit iTunes is a mess and Photos (sad substitute for either iPhotos or Aperture) doesn't even show a busy indicator as it SLOWLY turns internally, that Final Cut Pro X is still inferior to Final Cut Pro, etc. etc. Apple has spent all its efforts into pushing PHONES (overpriced ones that have buggy as hell iOS releases in recent years) and a watch no one cares about. No wonder their stock is starting to drop like a stone.
The sad thing is Apple could turn things around, but they don't CARE because Macs are just Jony Ive's "play thing" to try and put his mark on it so that anything Scott Forestall did is erased (no matter how bad the replacement GUI or how buggy it is). Apple only cares about phones these days, but the sad fact is they are continuing to lose ground to Android (just like with Microsoft Windows in the 1990s) because they never learned a DAMN THING from their own history. They purposely withhhold new features so they can sell you it in a phone two versions from now and the competition just keeps passing them by. Yeah, they made more money because they had no competition for the hardware or software the iPhone runs, but even so they are still losing ground. And when that market share drops below 10% (like the Mac did so long ago), watch out. Not even all the king's horses and all the king's men will be able to put Apple back at the top again.
