Jinx Barker
GFB Scientific Interstellar Corporate Alliance
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Posted - 2007.04.11 01:20:00 -
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Well, I might get flamed for it by some people, although I can not imagine why, here goes....
I have always been a life-long user of the PC's. But, recently my GF was raving like a lunatic about Apple, she owned it for about 4 years now, and then one of the major retailers here has met with financial troubles, and had to liquidate most of its retail location, and I had an opportunity to buy an iMac at half the price - for a brand new machine.
It is a 20" iMac, I upgraded the standard 1 GIG Ram to the Max 4. And well, I recently realized that I am really fraking falling in love with the OS X and the way APPLE works and interfaces. One sad, and nerve shuttering realization is that if I owned an APPLE three and a half years ago I would have never tried EVE, and got bloody addicted to it.
Now, I installed XP on my new iMac, and the damn thing runs on the par, if sometimes not better than on my top of the line Alienware (PC) machine. the 20" Display is a killer, and video performance is amazing, despite 128MB Video card, AW has 256MB.
I am pretty happy with how XP runs on my iMac, however, I find it a pain in the arse when I have to switch between the operating systems - "BootCamp" FTW, for native XP performance.
Any snowball's chance in hell you guys would ever release a universal binary version of EVE for the new Intel Apple Generation machines? If you have thought about it, please, please, please, seriously, desperately, for the love of all the gods in the pantheon, think about it again.
I know you guys have allot on your plate now, but I see myself kinda drifting from EVE even more, which is kind of stupid, because I am using an iMac, and am stupid lazy to hold a button to boot into XP. But I just am really amazed at OS X performance and ease of use. By the way, I am an IT guy, so I am extremely familiar with all aspects of PC platform, and that is why I am more and more amazed by Apple.
Also, I am sure that a native universal binary EVE for OS X, or the new versions, would be even better than running it on XP, or at least it will be extremely comfortable.
I know this will probably never get answered, and I do not want to bother Oveur with wistful e-mails. Just something I desperately want to happen, so as not to loose too much touch with EVE.
I appreciate you reading this crap, and I just hope against hope that something might be done, at some point in time.
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