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The Sims for OS X expected tomorrow

updated 07:25 pm EDT, Wed July 25, 2001

 
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Mac game publisher Aspyr Media is planning to release a number of game updates and demo this week:

  • The Sims Carbon, a Mac OS X-compatible version of The Sims. (Thursday)
  • The Sims 1.1.4 Update, an update for the U.S. retail version of The Sims. (Thursday)
  • Livin' Large 1.2.1 Update, an update for the U.S. retail version of expansion pack The Sims: Livin' Large. (Thursday)
  • Escape from Monkey Island Demo, a demonstration version of the 3D adventure game. (Friday)


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    Sims!

    Sims carbon patch! w*** who! What more could I have asked for. Maybe all your games are belong to Aspyr? No! All your games are belong to Macintosh!

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    They're Available NOW!

    All of these Sims updates mentioned are NOW available on the Aspyr website. You can go to versiontracker.com for the Classic updates, but the Carbon update is not listed there, but I'm downloading it now.

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    addendum:

    sorry, they're on the Aspyr FTP site.

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    Apple: Sell the G3 tower!

    Look at it this way - a FireWire iMac is $1000, right? Take off the monitor, which represents probably $150 of the retail cost. (Apple's cost - $40 or so). That's $850. Put it in a tower case and add 3 PCI slots (net cost - $25, or even close to zero if you use a cheap case. Even allowing $50 for a nice case, that's $900 for a G3 in a tower case with PCI slots.

    The cheapest G4 tower is $1699. Is the G4 worth $800 more than our hypothetical G3 tower? I don't think so, especially if the CPU is upgradeable in our cheap machine. That's the problem, the numbers on the G4 towers don't add up.

    If I buy a Dell, every step up in CPU speed is roughly $200, a bit more for the really top end. With Apple, the same 1 or 2 steps in CPU speed is a $1500 increase. That's the price of a whole second machine!

    Based on these calculations, it's obvious that Apple could profitably a fast G3 tower at $900 and make a tidy profit, maybe more than on the iMac. They owe it to their shareholders and loyal mac users to pursue this opportunity.

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    nice

    I bought the sims last weekend specifically because they were releasing a carbon patch for it. I can't wait, buh bye classic gaming, hello osx

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    What about UT?

    What about UT and Dues Ex?

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    Well, they're off now...

    I guess we'll have to wait until the official release tomorrow. They've taken them off of the FTP servers.

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    Re: There available...

    Care to share the link?

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    Re: Apple: Sell the G3 to

    What makes you think apple reads your spam?

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    FTP link

    Aspyr FTP Site, though the updates aren't there (as of this post)

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