Thats not necessarily true. I have a 24" C2D imac with the nvidia 8800gs. I am bootcamping it wiht Win7 and playing on native res with most settings on high and a few on medium. No AA (which you dont need at that res) and 2x AF. Game runs smooth and nice...no probs!
i ment to run it on OSX, if your running it on a Win7 it will work fine, i was also mentioning that alot of people still use the Macs with ati cards like the 2400hd, etc it will not run at all at any kind of decent settings
@CaoCao
you bolded solidstate HDD, so its wrong to use one? please elaborate? Civ5 is a pretty big game, you need 8GB of space, if a map and all the textures, etc is 1GB an SSD will load that in 3.5 seconds, a regular drive will load that in 20-30+ seconds depending on fragmentation, if the drive has NCQ, and some other factors, thats a big difference
You don't think it's fair? Last I checked no one is forcing anyone to buy these machines. If it meets their needs and requirements they will purchase them. If it doesn't they won't.
From the sounds of things you are just trying to justify your purchase of that ASUS by coming on a forum about Macs to claim that the MacBook Pro isn't reliable after 100% usage when it's clear you have no personal experience with the matter at hand. You can enjoy your Dell Mini and Asus and people can enjoy their MacBook Pro's/iMacs or whatever else they choose to buy because clearly if they bought it, it should meet their needs.
well, needs would be, good encoding perf, fast HDD, OSX (if they are using finalcutpro) your options are pretty limited when it comes to apple. im saying its not fair becuase apple advertised "high performance, workhorse etc" on their website,
my friend went out and bought one thinking it was also the fastest vista machine (an ad that apple had on their site) and now hes stuck with a MBP thats not 100% reliable and will overheat and shut down if left encoding without a cooler, basically he got ripped off $2600ish dollars.
and you are right, i dont have FIRST hand exp with a mbp dying because i wouldnt be stupid enough to spend $2K+ on something that is slower than some $800 laptops. how ever i have to deal with them from time to time (IE: dead HDDs in MB/MBps, ram upgrades, os upgrades etc)
however if you are offended by the signature ill just remove it, i only put it on because someone asked and that seems to be the trend on this site (also i guess to help troubleshoot in the product specific threads where there are problems