MAC GAMER

FELIX, MY HOME MAC
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I confess that I'm a Mac Gamer. That is, I use Apple hardware to play games (well in fact I'm also a videogame player, as I own a PS2 and an Xbox). As a Mac Gamer I belong to a minority. But I don't care. Mac gamers are well served with Game Ranger platform, and I have all the needs covered. Well may be there are some shortcomings, but broadly speaking, I'm fine.

Since July 2002, when I bought my current iMac 14 G4 at 800 MHz, the interest from Apple towards gaming has increased a lot. I think the last iMac G5 and Power Mac G5 are built having in mind game requirements, so from my point of view, the future of Mac gaming is brilliant. As a consequence, I'm thinking in buying a new one this summer. Originally the idea was to buy a new one in 4 years (that is in summer 2006), but events are changing so fast that may be I change my mind and advance the decision in one year. Of course, I must confess that gaming is not the only activity I do with my Mac.

Another important reason is that in my office (in fact a table) I have a brand new iMac 17 G5 1.8 GHz, and the difference is so big that I can't wait to change. You may say that I'm too much consume intoxicated. May be you are right. But when I realize that my office Mac plays (called Alex) at 0 pings instead of 200 or more pings that plays my home Mac (called Felix), that's another world.

Today I've played America's Army. Special Forces after downloading at my Office Mac (Alex), and the experience is light years far from when I play at home. I've played three times. The outcomes: 22 (not qualified), 30 (qualified for sharpshooter) and 24 (qualified) in basic training (from 40 shots, 23 to qualify). But the most interesting fact is the difference between playing with Alex than playing with Felix. In the latter I use to have some troubles in every match (low speed, crazy mouse). In the former, all quiet, all sweet, no problems at all (well in fact there is one, the mouse ultrasensibility, that made me shot twice when I wanted to shot just once).

To finish this chronicle, let me introduce Felix, my home Mac. It is not old except for playing (but I still can play Ghost Recon without problems).

Felix, say hello to the people...