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JZSlenker:
I would love to have built my cabinet around a Mac instead of a PC.  Having been an IT person for both PC's and Macs I have a certain place in my heart for the reliability and easy of use of the Macs.  Finally Mac meets arcade.  If only it was real.  The april fools joke got me good.

protokatie:
Hmm, that might actually be doable. Just mod the keyboard dock for the ipad, and make some arcade games that take keyboard input in a way that matches the mod.

Do-able yes, practical, prolly not, unless we see MAME ported to the Ipad (not gonna happen)

VanillaGorilla:
not gonna happen? you can run mame on an iphone, so why not? theres really no difference...in fact, i'd be shocked if mame WASNT available for ipad..

Havok:

--- Quote from: JZSlenker on April 01, 2010, 09:14:53 pm ---Having been an IT person for both PC's and Macs I have a certain place in my heart for the reliability and easy of use of the Macs.
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Pfft - I've been an IT person and supported Macs and PCs for 15 years now. I came to a different conclusion. I much prefer the overwheming amount of PC hardware and software options. Not to mention paying half what the Mac guys do. Perhaps you should not grant your PC users admin rights...

 ;)

JZSlenker:
No doubt there is more hardware and software availiable that is why there is a pc in my cab.  But for pure number crunching and encoding I'd take a mac.  Our encoding dept has both and the pc's are always Maxed out on processing power.  They certainly do cost more however as a good friend of mine allways says, you don't get what you don't pay for.  There is a reason pc magazine voted the MacBook pro the best platform to run vista.  Two of our other pc IT guys do all their work on MacBook pros running ms seven.  It's certainly up to the end user which way to go, but for me I'll take an 8 core mac all day when doing After effects, Motion or Smoke work, not to mention video editing or protools.

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