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Disclaimer: This thread isn't intended to shatter anybody's preferences as it is not necessary or wanted, if you simply cannot reply without trolling on either macs or PC then please do not post at all.
Also, this thread shouldn't bring up anything about Macs or PCs outside of gaming or even better, Starcraft itself.
Now that that's over on to the real thread:
So I am a Mac user and I have been playing SC2 since its release and SC1 for about 5 years. I am a Plat Zerg and I've always wondered if there were any pros who use macs to play SC2. I don't know any who have and i feel like it would make for a very odd experience if they were at a tournament and had to play on a PC.
I understand that PCs are better to game with due primarily to the fact that they can be customized and macs cannot though the mac i use can run on all ultra(even though i don't) so it isn't necessarily a graphics point as much as a gameplay.
When i played sc1 i played on a PC and when starcraft 2 came out I started using the mac for the better graphics and less lag because the mac was newer. The only big difference is the Command vsControl keys to make hotkeys. Though people have preference one isn't better than the other so that wouldn't be a reason that they don't use macs.
Any thoughts or comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!! And in case anyone forgot....
Disclaimer: This thread isn't intended to shatter anybody's preferences as it is not necessary or wanted, if you simply cannot reply without trolling on either macs or PC then please do not post at all.
Also, this thread shouldn't bring up anything about Macs or PCs outside of gaming or even better, Starcraft itself.
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I dont think there are any pros that are using macs, just because most teams have sponsorships with hardware companys that do not apply to mac. And some peripherals arent available for mac either, for example some mechanic keyboards I think.
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Yeah, i think a big issue for the pros with using macs is tournaments not being able to accommodate them properly. Like you mentioned, if a pro normally played on mac and then played pc on tourneys i feel that would just totally throw them off - or at least cause one more thing to be uncomfortable with in high pressure situations. Can't vouch much for the hotkey, but the tourneys are just the immediate problem i see.
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I'm not a pro, but I do use a Mac... on bootcamp running windows 7. (For gaming)
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Not a Pro but like the guy above, I use a Mac w/ bootcamp but it's giving me SO MUCH STUPID HEADACHES LATELY I WANT TO GO SMASH THIS STUPID THING TO PIECES
but no, I'm gonna go off and buy the new retina MBP instead cause Apple has me in their hands
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I'm not a pro, but I use a mac, and game on the mac side.
my SC2 actually runs better on the mac os than on bootcamp'd windows
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Yeah, the tournaments is a big thing and the sponsorships too however on my mac i can plug in a PC keyboard so long as i reroute some keys which is somewhat impractical but at least the team could still keep the sponsorship.
and le Boucheron why use bootcamp?
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With mouse acceleration curves being different on Windows and OSX, any pro that uses OSX at home would be severely disadvantaged when they have to play at offline events which are exclusively played on PCs.
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I've been playing on macs since release and I've had nothing but performance issues. Always lags and freezes randomly.. All setttings have been set on lowest, except for effects (for seeing obs). paid 2 k for this mac and it can't even run sc2 well. I think Pros don't play on macs because for half the Cost a PC. Will literally double the performance of a mac.
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Not a pro either (in the sense you mean) but I use a Mac and home and a PC at work for SC2. I use the same keyboard and mouse in both locations and to be honest there is no difference that I have been able to discern.
I run everything at low settings and use custom hotkeys setup the same way on both systems.
Home system uses SSD so it is faster to boot and load.
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The problem is the built-in mouse acceleration. Besides, it's so straightforward to install Windows that I wonder why anyone would bother.
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Any pros use Linux? Why does it matter?
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I don't think any pros use macs, again due to sponsorship, or just ease of gaming on pc's. I used my macbook pro for a little while when I had some issues with my pc. I had to run low res, but otherwise SC2 ran just fine. I also was able to hook up my blackwidow and my deathadder with no problems at all. There is even a fix for mouse acceleration, so now I have mine turned off. So from a functionality standpoint, you can play just fine on a mac
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@ellachandra Yeah i have played before at friends houses or on school comps and have found little difference in the mouse or keyboard the only thing as i said before is the command vs control keys
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On August 01 2012 02:01 renaissanceMAN wrote:
I'm not a pro, but I use a mac, and game on the mac side.
my SC2 actually runs better on the mac os than on bootcamp'd windows
Well that's normal, while windows runs on macs it is not made for it. Given the same hardware and since Blizzard has released a mac version of sc2, the native OS should run it better.
Edit : On topic, it would mean that you would need an iMac or Mac Pro to have a desktop solution, and those things are incredibely expensive. You would need peripherals compatible with OSX, some are, some aren't, all are for windows.
Why use a more expensive and less compatible machine?
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On August 01 2012 02:02 thechasemenna wrote:
Yeah, the tournaments is a big thing and the sponsorships too however on my mac i can plug in a PC keyboard so long as i reroute some keys which is somewhat impractical but at least the team could still keep the sponsorship.
and le Boucheron why use bootcamp?
I have a '10 15" macbook pro i5
The performance from open GL is pretty bad on the mac side for SC2. It runs great on medium in windows. That's why. I'd rather use OSX for everything but you know, such is life for a Mac guy.
My buddy has a nice new iMac and runs SC2 in OSX and works great.
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On August 01 2012 02:01 renaissanceMAN wrote:
I'm not a pro, but I use a mac, and game on the mac side.
my SC2 actually runs better on the mac os than on bootcamp'd windows
Just wondering if anyone can comfirm if that is that actually true (ie measurably faster frame rates in the same situation) or if its the usual marketing usage of better in relation to Apple's products?
It's entirely possible as sc2's design has some unexpected weirdnesses with different configs and since OSX the kernals not Apples own work so it's not super bad anymore.
Might have imagined this but wasn't scarlet playing off a mactop for a while?
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haha, hilarious xD.
But it has some sort of truth in it. And no please dont take this as MAC-User Bashing. I think if you dont aim for Grandmaster or any further competitive play mac is absolutley fine.
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I'm a mid master protoss and I've always used a mac. Never owned a PC. However I don't use the apple keyboard/mouse, I got the razer blackwidow mac edition and a razer deathadder. The only issue I have with using a mac is that I can't figure out how to get the F1, F2 keys etc. to work as location hotkeys.
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