Scottish Samurai

As you all know I have gone to the dark side (or is that lighter side?) but with Valve's ingenious idea of putting Steam onto Macs I can still play games. What this blog is going to be about is the brillance of doing such an action, and how it could create a gaming platform out of Macs. Macs have always been known as lacking in the gaming department, with little support to push it forward. Steam has allowed Valve to put all of its title games unto the Mac which has already just created a new source of gaming for Mac users. The best part though is what this could mean for not just Valve, best the rest of developers. The Mac, a barren wasteland for games, with the one argument that PC kept pulling out against Mac is its lack of gaming. Now this is not totally true, more and more developers are realizing that Mac users play games and put out games for them. Still though this has not created large number to play, and usually Mac users have to wait for a game to come out. Damn you CIV 5...

The end is nigh, I am now an owner of an IMac. I know, I have disappointed you all but you know what as a future film director it is kinda important. I still have my old Laptop and it is still in good working order, just was starting to show its age a little bit. Though this is far from the main reason as in reality I need a computer that can do Final Cut Pro (Or Studio whatever it is called these days) and well my old laptop couldn't. Now I will tell you though that this new IMac well is probably the biggest update I have ever done before, it being quite a powerhouse inside of it. The Specs 2.9 Ghz I7 processor 4 GB of Ram 1 Gb of dedicated video on a ATI HD 5750 oh and a giant 27 inch screen Yep pretty big step up from what I had, and well since I am a filmmaker I am going to need it. The only part I am a little unhappy about is the 4GB of ram but luckily Apple is smart enough to realize that putting expansion ability into at least ram is handy. Thus hopefully I will be able to a...