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Offline Dragon

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What is the best Mac for gaming?
« on: October 22, 2011, 09:34:15 pm »
I know when people think of gaming they think "Windows PC" but there are more and more games coming out for mac then ever before.

I use Steam where I purchase all my PC games and they have a lot of mac titles so I was wondering what the best mac for gaming is.
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Re: What is the best Mac for gaming?
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2011, 09:57:13 pm »
None of them. In my own experience gaming experience via Steam in a Mac is worse than a PC, usually. But if I had to choose, Mac OS X Lion would be best.

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Re: What is the best Mac for gaming?
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2011, 05:54:01 am »
yeah i  agree with clusterphucker


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Re: What is the best Mac for gaming?
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2011, 01:12:24 pm »
Thanks for the info guys and yes Steam is great and I won't play PC games any other way. ;D
Processor: Intel Core i7-2600k CPU @ 3.40GHz
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