Strange, I’ve never had (also pirated) XP crash due to any drivers. Actually, in the 8 or so years that I ran XP (tried vista, hated it, uninstalled it), I’ve only had it crash a handful of times.
That being said, Windows 7 is great. And even in its pre-release state is a very stable and productive OS.
you clearly have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. Absolutely no idea.
I recently went from building high end gaming rigs, to just buying macs, after I got my MacBook Pro.
I have a Mac Pro, 8-Cores, 12GB DDR3, and an ATI 4870, never had a single problem with it. I boot Mac OS X Snow leopard.
I also have a 17-inch MacBook Pro, with 2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB DDR3
NVIDIA 9600M 512MB, which I boot a LEGIT Version of XP X86 on. No problems booting it or installing steam, or any game for that matter, drivers aren’t really a problem.
With my PC, I had Core i7, X58, 2 4870X2, 6GB of Ram, I could NEVER get Windows Vista X64, or XP x64 to work right ever, always had driver issues from my mice, keyboard, usb devices.
I do programming, and CG art, so the Mac Pro was the best decision I’ve ever made on a computer.
Snow Leopard has ton’s of great free apps, with a great community and developers to fix bugs, and that kind of thing, I haven’t had one single crash, or anything with any of my Apple products.
Your problem is you tried to use XP x64.
I’m pretty sure everyone agrees that OS is shit, almost entirely because no driver developers make anything for it.
Vista x64 would work, as long as the stupid ass developers made a x64 version at all.
And how much did you pay for these macs? If you had payed the same amount and bought a pc you would have gotten much better hardware. And you don’t get problems with your macs because you got the high end ones. If you buy a " low end" (1000 dollars) you will have problems. Also, do you use a cooling pad?
I don’t know, I just always blame any problem with my computer on my os, but may just be me doing something stupid.
I personally dislike Mac’s probably, because I’ve never really had use for them, despite, when at upper school, upper-middle class media shitmaggots in my year kept insisting I use one. To be honest anything a Mac can do could probably be ported onto a PC, or software could be written for the PC that does the exact same job, so imo, its probably better to save your money and just build/buy a PC, (which is fairly hypocritical of me since I bought an Alienware last year, and my bank balance has not yet recovered).
Well what I’m gunna do is wait for all the reviews of 7 to come out then buy it if the reviews are good just like the beta reviews were.
um i sorta do know what im talking about i just get way a head of myself
i wonder how you mod your pc bios to make it so u can run Mac OSX hmmmmmm… i should look inro that, but i think you will have to know a little about C (which i know) and a little about UNIX (which i have no idea where the algorithms start)
triple post. wow. After you were told not to double post. If you have more to say use the handy edit button instead. 
What I meant by that was that Unix is not a programing language; it’s an operating system. Hence you can’t program an operating system in it. (well, you can; but that’s a different meaning of “in.”) Also, “pc bioses” are definitely compatible with unix-based OSes.
wrong.
Black Mesa will only play on a pc.
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Good point. Why are you here if you don’t use a PC?
^ We have a winner! 
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Correction - Black Mesa will only play on Windows.
lrn2WINE
Hey I run Ubuntu-Linux on my laptop it had bios even with a fried hard-drive, it still has bios, because bios is defined not by an OS but by the machine itself as it runs off a motherboard (it is the basic motherboard input/output screen), and even after a full Ubuntu install none of the options are different so clearly you have no clue what you are talking about.
this won the thread
except for the fact that its wrong
99% true. How many people will be playing it through a windows PC? I’d hazard a guess at almost everyone.
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“almost everyone” != “only play on a pc”
I don’t think there’s a significant percentage (at least, not one big enough to be a concern in the mods development, not that anything could be done anyway) of people who are gonna be trying to play this on a Mac, and those who are, likely know that it will be difficult.
If you wanna stand for that minority, sure, but I can tell you, using this mod on a Mac will be something few people do, fact.
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Founded in 2004, Leakfree.org became one of the first online communities dedicated to Valve’s Source engine development. It is more famously known for the formation of Black Mesa: Source under the 'Leakfree Modification Team' handle in September 2004.