Does CPU speed matter for gaming on a Mac Laptop?
The difference between, for example, 2.4 Ghz and 2.6 Ghz will be negligible when running the games. What will contribute to the smoothness and quality of the games the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and to an extent bus speed, CPU cache and RAM.
When it comes to RAM, the more the merrier – to avoid the Hard Drive being used to swap applications when your memory is full.
Category: gaming
I recently upgraded to a 22″ widescreen monitor. To drive this monitor in a Digital fashion, I jumped from a Geforce 3 series to a Geforce 7 Series with a Dual Link DVI connector. It turns out the monitor wasn’t dual link, but this review is on the card, not the monitor. The old 3D card was some major brand, I can’t remember which, and since I was upgrading an existing AGP card, I had to choose a replacement AGP card as well.
Listening to Starman talk about his Arcane/Frost spec on worldofwarcast makes me want to hurry up and get a move on in this game. I’ve played the game since it came out in 2004, and my main char is a lvl 49 arcane mage, so why can’t I make it past lvl 60, and why can’t I even get into to the outlands? (I have the expansion).
Life.. that’s why. Family and a full time job too…
Do you play World of Warcraft? Do you play on a Mac? Do you want to listen to music from the game on your iPod? Jean-François has the solution over at his blog.MPQ Extractor 1.0!
Update: Jean-François has suggested that it is easier to use MPQFS. I haven’t test this however.
I rang nintendo today and it was very painless to order my free wiimote strap replacements. They asked for the console serial number, the number of wiimotes, and told me to keep my old straps to send back. They will include a return envelope for me. Painless, quick, and finally we will soon be able to use our wiimote with straps again… It feels very unsafe swinging these things around without straps.
So it finally happened… The strap on my Wiimote broke whilst playing Wii Sports on the Nintendo Wii. With luck, we have no broken television or anything else.
Lets hope Nintendo will replace these.
A 1983 Dungeons & Dragons commercial has found its way to YouTube.
Those were the days when games like this used your imagination, and parents where worried about kids taking up real swords! I remember my mother taking me out of a D&D game, and that was the last time I ever played it. Now where is my 1d20?
(Via Workbench Blog.)