Mac might get Oculus Rift if Apple “ever releases a good computer”

Savage, but true. It's the reason I don't consider upgrading to a Mac. Yeah, the UI and stuff might be cool, but instead of a decent GPU there's some piece of crap about as powerful as a packet of jelly tots.
 
In b4 "This is a crap article" / "This guy doesn't know what he's talking about" / "Praise Hail apple"

:D
 
we are in the era of the use case. instead of my Core i7 PC permanently on, serving movies on the network, I use a Raspberry PI NAS. Uses about a 10th of the electricity, does not make noise, etc, etc.

Macs are awesome for their use case, and so are PC's.
 
No surprises here. Macs just aren't built with gaming in mind.

Might not be a bad idea for Apple to start tapping into this market though as game support is getting better. I'm sure if they pushed this developers would definitely get on board.
 
Well let's be honest, he's quite right. Apple does make good computers, but for gaming they're not even a consideration. Then they make it worse by taking a mobile AMD GPU and forcing it to render 5k pixels (which it doesn't do well at all btw, even for non-gaming purposes). Then they stuff a tiny heatsink onto a 5960x that throttles the clockspeed in order to keep it quiet. This is why I'm still not budging on a Windows PC.
 
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@bwana Any change of PC setup is an 'upgrade' for me. Otherwise I wouldn't make the change.
 
Mac Pro (Mid 2012) - Tech Specs:
https://support.apple.com/kb/SP652?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US

Two 2.4GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5645 processors
12MB of fully shared L3 cache per processor
Turbo Boost dynamic performance up to 2.67GHz
Hyper-Threading technology for up to 24 virtual cores
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2.4GHz, 2.66GHz, and 3.06GHz systems: 1333MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM
Eight memory slots (four per processor) supporting up to 64GB of main memory using 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB DIMMs
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Still a good computer today.
120611_mac_pro.jpg
 
I don’t know why Luckey is slating Apple… Apple will get on-board when VR is more applicable to their brand and importantly the application set used by Apple. Feck, Apple will probably launch their own VR developers kit and eventual product release when the time is right.

For my personal use the PC is outmatching the MAC. For many others the brand identity is their thing.

VR today is still an embryo.

Target markets, target markets, target markets...
 
lies, apple was working with oculus on this

new pc being released by apple for vr/gaming? apple console?
 
I used to game just about every day on my Macs. People have a very narrow view of what gaming means. Its meaning is not limited to latest and greatest AAA titles, or high graphics settings.

At least we all know what's best and most desirable, for good reasons, and I do hope that one day Apple will satisfy even more people by bringing out more AAA/high res gaming configurations or platforms. It will probably take some time with Macs though because more graphics = more heat = less beautiful computers.

I've had the Corsair Obsidian ATX chassis with high end gaming parts, but I'm past that time in my life, and the only going back will be a mATX/Mini-ITX gaming Hackintosh inspired by Apple design and thought.
 
Can anyone please link me to 'gaming' Windows ultrabooks and all-in-one computers?
 
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