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The Apple gaming experience will be fun, inexpensive and immersive, with gobs of variety and that's all it takes. Combine Airplay with, AppleTV and with iPod touch/iPhone-Wii-style controllers and the possibilities are endless. You could sling games from any computer or iDevice in the house to your HDTV, for example.
Following the success of the Apple II and Commodore PET in the late 1970s a series of cheaper and incompatible rivals emerged in the early 1980s. This second batch included the Commodore Vic 20, 64, Sinclair ZX80, ZX81, ZX Spectrum, Atari 8-bit family, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC and MSX series. These rivals helped to catalyze both the Home Computer and Games markets, by raising awareness of computing and gaming through their competing advertising campaigns.
The IBM PC compatible computer became a technically competitive gaming platform with IBM’s PC/AT in 1984. The primitive 4-color CGA graphics of previous models had limited the PC’s appeal to the business segment, as its graphics failed to compete with the C64 or Apple II. The new 16-color EGA display standard allowed its graphics to approach the quality seen in popular home computers like the Commodore 64. The sound capabilities of the AT, however, were still limited to the PC speaker, which was substandard compared to the built-in sound chips used in many home computers. Also, the relatively high cost of the PC compatible systems severely limited their popularity in gaming.
It's more of a gaming machine than the old MacBook Pro, said Mike Schramm, a blogger who writes for both the video game site Joystiq and The Unofficial Apple Weblog. The weak point in Apple's hardware has always been the integrated graphics chip. The computers have always been blazing fast, but the 3D graphics have been chugging away on an old Intel chip. And the new Nvidia chips will fix that problem.
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