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People always underestimate how important games are to PC sales, and Apple is traditionally the worst about this given their bicycle for the mind rhetoric. I d

People always underestimate how important games are to PC sales, and Apple is traditionally the worst about this given their bicycle for the mind rhetoric. I don't think it is a coincidence that Apple laptops became very popular after you started being able to boot them in Windows to play a game. You got the benefit of MacOS, Apple hardware and PC game libraries.

epistasis 6y ago
I know a lot of people wi Th Macs, but they are all developers or scientists, and I've never known anybody to install Windows via boot camp! So I'm clearly not in this demographic. However I do wonder how large it is compared to the rest of the Mac userbase.
scarface74 6y ago
I doubt very many people are buying Macs to run Windows games. Mac hardware doesn’t exactly come with the greatest GPUs.
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago
  "How many people buy Macs to run Windows games" is the wrong question. I don't buy computers just to read websites (I can do that more comfortably on an iPad), or just to write documents (ever heard of the FreeWrite[1]?), or just to play games (I'd rather use a game console). Rather, I buy a computer because it's a single device that can do all of those things. I almost added "and switch between them seamlessly" to the end of the last sentence, but of course on a Mac with Bootcamp, that's the one exception—you have to reboot in order to play a game. Still, on a laptop, I consider the ability quite valuable—I don't want to carry around a second computer just to play a quick game of Spelunky from time to time. If I couldn't do that at all on a Mac, it would be a point in favor of Windows. --- 1: https://getfreewrite.com/ https://getfreewrite.com/
  - scarface74 6y ago
    And the casual game market is much larger and those are mostly on mobile. Besides, Apple will probably already have a large number of casual games via Apple Arcade.
geekles 6y ago
Mac support in games is less important now than ever before. Services such as Shadow are how I game on my Mac now.

epistasis 6y ago

I know a lot of people wi Th Macs, but they are all developers or scientists, and I've never known anybody to install Windows via boot camp! So I'm clearly not in this demographic. However I do wonder how large it is compared to the rest of the Mac userbase.

scarface74 6y ago

I doubt very many people are buying Macs to run Windows games. Mac hardware doesn’t exactly come with the greatest GPUs.

Wowfunhappy 6y ago
"How many people buy Macs to run Windows games" is the wrong question. I don't buy computers just to read websites (I can do that more comfortably on an iPad), or just to write documents (ever heard of the FreeWrite[1]?), or just to play games (I'd rather use a game console). Rather, I buy a computer because it's a single device that can do all of those things. I almost added "and switch between them seamlessly" to the end of the last sentence, but of course on a Mac with Bootcamp, that's the one exception—you have to reboot in order to play a game. Still, on a laptop, I consider the ability quite valuable—I don't want to carry around a second computer just to play a quick game of Spelunky from time to time. If I couldn't do that at all on a Mac, it would be a point in favor of Windows. --- 1: https://getfreewrite.com/ https://getfreewrite.com/
- scarface74 6y ago
  And the casual game market is much larger and those are mostly on mobile. Besides, Apple will probably already have a large number of casual games via Apple Arcade.

geekles 6y ago

Mac support in games is less important now than ever before. Services such as Shadow are how I game on my Mac now.