Just out of curiousity what is bleeding edge game for you?
Because i find it hard for a game that is 2 years old to be under that category.
I don't doubt that ati's(the ones apple use) are ok for home use and for people above 40,but i find it hard that apple is looking to sell only in this category of people there machines.
Also i don't doubt that is a design driven company but that doesn't stop them to put something that fits on a macbook pro,it is thinner than an imac.
Anyway thank you for the responce.
Let's put it this way...the people I work or interact with aren't concerned AT ALL with whatever GPUs they might have in their PCs or Macs, and live perfectly well with that.
We tend to get a totally obtuse view in forums like this, presuming that the WHOLE consumer market is made of posters ranting about the absence of a 8800 GTXYR blablabla or the fact that they can only reach 40fps and not 53fps as shown in some geeky site. These 2 companies called ATi and NVIDIA are EVERYDAY launching stupid new GPUs and I don't get a clue what the differences mean, apart from 5 or 10% improvements that mean ZILT to me and billions of people. Yet, people in this forum continue to cry for the bleeding edge, even if the current things serve them more than enough.
Please show me a SINGLE study PROVING that normal people really worry about upgrading something else beyond RAM memory...no, you won't find it; and that's why Apple sells Macs and not beige boxes; to keep it simple and tidy to 99% of the market. Even the MacMini, a headless Mac, follows this rule of simplicity.
When I talk about normal games, I talk about the Mac universe of games and the related universe of NORMAL consumers like me or the girl next door; people who are not buying games every day because they have to either work, study or clean up the flat in 75% of their daily hours. I bought Call of Duty two years ago and I still play it a lot, as do lots of PC users (at least the online servers are always crowded, and they all say CoD 2 is worse). I bought Doomsday and NWN to have some strategy/RPG game with me, even though I barely have time for'em.
Does Warcraft play badly on the new iMacs? Surely not. Does CoD 2 play badly on them? Of course not. What about The Sims, the other Mac RPGs or even the newer simulation games available from Aspyr or MacSoft? ALL of them play at least acceptably well for us all.
I am TOTALLY sure that we would have a thousand PC whiners here EVEN if we had the 2600XT, or if Apple had chosen to keep the seemingly better 7600GT. This is the market Apple DOESN'T WANT to cater to, because these people are ALWAYS dissatisfied. They crave for numbers, not real-life usefulness. These people always want the latest, without ever knowing why things such as the iPod, the iMac or the iPhone are HUGELY SUCCESSFUL.
Reason? Once more, simplicity and integration. For those not seeing the obvious, PCs will keep on serving them well, with their thousand cables, card readers that nobody cares about, unstable and fugly OSs, ridiculously ugly MOBOs and those uncountable features that are never used by normal people.
I hope this clarifies my point once and for all. Is it better to have the best GPU? Sure. Will it satisfy the whiners? Never. Go see the iMac, check it for your needs and see why Apple sells at 3x the industry rate. If Macs fit your needs, buy them. If not, go for a PC or a console, both of them cheapo and ubiquitous.
