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Mac OS X Gamers?

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Daedro

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Trying to decide here.. I went through the effort of getting a (retail OSX) hackintosh running. I figured it would be great to not switch back and forth between Ubuntu and W7 for web development (at least, that's my main reason - if you are using OSX then you have your reasons too). OSX has a lot of positives. The only positive I can think of on W7 is better game support (and I like the classic dock/UI better). I've went down the VirtualBox route before (on XP) and it just wasn't the same. Maybe if all I do is play Valve games all day, it's an easy choice (OSX), but other games too..

My issues so far:
1) OSX support of course seems rare, whichever developers actually bother to support Cider/Wine.
2) mouse acceleration curve is annoying the heck out of me. I don't want to have to put so much effort moving my arm to move a few centimeters. W7 feels the most intuitive, Ubuntu a close 2nd. I tried USB Overdrive, but it seems glitchy, the mouse drags a bit - not VERY smooth - and sometimes just decides to skip randomly. I have a G500, awesome mouse otherwise.
3) Obviously hackintosh comes with some annoyances, but I'm not considering those into the equation.

I could switch between W7 and OSX, but then there's the issue of sharing drives.. NTFS on OSX, or HFS on W7, or FAT32 (yay, 4GB cap)? all non-journaled options too..

I could have 2 PCs running.. maybe sharing a wireless drive, but meh, physical movement + worse hardware + can't share monitors.. at least, not without going the KVM route..

Are there any happy OSX gamers out there on [h]? How do you cope?
 
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I know a few mac only game players, but they do often reinforce points you've made.
The choice of games is horrendously limited, unless you like playing pcasual games and valve/(most) id titles only. Also be aware that even for the win/mac games, often the tools that come with games like map editors/mod development kits/SDKs are usually windows only.

Most of the OSX players only play starcraft or left 4 dead. But outside that play using consoles...

I thought there was a way to make macs read ntfs drives? (at least with externals there is)
 
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