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[CompproB237]

Atayu, on 04 December 2012 - 04:41 PM, said:

Yep apple is 40 percent more cost for the look.

Hmm, I should get a stencil of the Apple logo and some grey/silver spraypaint. Suddenly all the computers I make for clients could be marked up 40% since they're "Apple" computers. ;D

Seriously though, this man is right. The components in any Apple device is mostly mainstream with some high-end parts but has a ridiculous markup. Last time I looked for laughs Apple thought a 1TB SATA 7,200 RPM 8MB Cache Western Digital Caviar Green Hard Drive costs $600 (Not even close).

EDIT: Oh and component replacement and system repair is pretty difficult on all Apple products but very simple on other brands. Just look at how to replace an iPod/iPad/iPhone's battery then look at most other brands. Notice the ease of replacement in comparison.

Edited by CompproB237, 05 December 2012 - 10:35 AM.

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Fiachdubh, on 01 December 2012 - 12:09 PM, said:

Yes it is free to download and play but, importantly, it is NOT pay to win. There are no 'gold ammunition' or invulnerable premium mechs. It is beta so still a work in progress, pretty much the bare bones in comparison with what will be in the game eventually.
As for Mac support, why would you buy a mac? Or anything from Apple for they are a source of true (over priced)evil in the world.

Or Apple sells a premium product with wickedly good customer support (#1 in Consumer Reports for 11 years in a row) and in general has lot more love for their customers and the user experience than WinTel...

WIndows 7 on Boot Camp running on a mid-2011 27" iMac with a i5-2700 and the 1 GB nVidia card runs fine. I recently went up to 16 GB of RAM for under $100, which helped some.

I could not get acceptable performance from a 2012 15" MBPro with an i7 and 8GB of RAM, so your mileage may vary.

[Nias]

I know most people have been saying this works fine on windows 8.. But I'm one of the people who it does not run for on windows 8. I ran this fine on windows 7.. But I cannot for the life of me get it running on windows 8... Yes I've run DX9.. Yes I followed the link and re installed the redistributable AGAIN just to make sure.. And Nothing.. I get the typical (Your video card is not supported even though it's a mainstream ATI Card.. and worked fine in win7) I've gone through every video driver for win8. Soon as I press Play from patcher I see for a breif second an outline of a window trying to open then poof.. gone.. still at the launcher.. no error.. sent the logs from the game to support.. nothing they could find.. dxdiag shows no problems.. I'm stumped.. I WISH I could find an error at least..

Just a FYI.. I also have .NET Framework 3.5 since win8 doesn't come with that either..
And my Video Card is an ATI 6850 (pretty standard).


OK.... just 10 min after this.. after trying for days.. It looks like I needed to restart my PC.. I've been running without a restart (just having the PC go to sleep) since win8 came out.. Not having to had to restart for DX in the past.. something must have had the file locked.. SOooo anyway looks like i'm working.. lol.. yay me.

It was actually Kerbel Space program that lead me to find the problem.. it would crash and actually gave me working logs to see that it was having issues with DX9.. Knowing I installed it I figured I might as well reboot for the hell of it.

Edited by Nias, 19 December 2012 - 11:36 AM.