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rajan "Like every other Mac user. PC gaming make up a significant market in the PC world, and trust me, Apple's not even close in getting some hardcore gamers to switch. "

Ok, now you're just rambling...and obviously didn't read what I said...(psst..read the part about Win98 again in that paragraph) I've been a PC gamer for umm....oh I dunno, ever since 386's where considered fast...Hell, I've been a computer gamer since the C64 was new, I know the computer game market. And where did I ever say anything about anyone "switching" for any reason? If you read my post again you'll probably see that I only said "I switched" from other unixes...I even explicitly said I wouldn't be deleting my Windows partition.

"Comparing a PS/2 or a Gamecube to a PC is laughable... :-)"

I would disagree with you there, certain types of games play better on consoles than PC's and vice versa, but I think lumping them all together as game playing devices is perfectly valid.

"Two different markets. PC gamers won't play a console game if a PC version is available; clearly, the quality is better."

Funny, I work in an office full of gamers, they all play console and PC games. Seems like the same market to me (I can't think of a single one that doesn't do both now, if they play games they play both...). And there are many cases where they will play the console title over the PC title, and vice versa. As for quality, I guess that depends on your criteria. I could go on disecting the quality of PC and console titles here for quite a while, but, now it's getting way off topic, considering that this story is about slashdot people are now looking at macs. It really has very little to do with PC gaming or Windows in general. I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make or prove.