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Steam and MacBook Air
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I run it both on Windows and OSX.
Use Windows to play large games like Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2, Borderlands, and Dawn Of War. It even runs Sonic Generations (just about).
On OSX I only really install smaller games like Limbo, Plants v Zombies, and Super Meat Boy.
Use Windows to play large games like Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2, Borderlands, and Dawn Of War. It even runs Sonic Generations (just about).
On OSX I only really install smaller games like Limbo, Plants v Zombies, and Super Meat Boy.
If you want to use it for games, you MUST go the boot camp route. You can still use the partition in a VM as well, but VMs aren't given full access to your video card so it wouldn't perform nearly as well.
Also, although Steam is available for both PC and Mac, I would definitely say the PC version is much better.
Oh great! I didn't know u could use it as a VM as well! This is great news! Need to get home to format.
With VM with older games, I have to use VM because Windows 7 won't play a few of my games even with compatibility settings like Star Trek Academy, Star Trek Armada. I did play Crysis on a VM on my iMac 2010 was it played better than a PC I had in 2009. I get my Macbook Air 2012 today and will see what VM does for me with gaming. I know that Dead Island won't work in VM when I run Windows 7 that that might be a DirectX 11 issue.