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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3851275" data-attributes="member: 710">I don't think he needs it, because it should be obvious to any Mac owner whether he can dual boot or not. I hope it's also obvious (to both Mac Users and WotC) that dual-booting doesn't come free.You need BootCamp, whose Beta Phase is now over and is supposed to cost money if you're still using Mac OS Tiger , and you still need Windows License (which isn't free except in a few corner cases, like the MSDN Academic Alliance) to have anything to dual boot. If you see using the Virtual Game Table and the Character Portrait Builder (or what it is called) as a main component of your hobby, it appears so.Except your price seems a bit too high, I think you can a get a decent Windows PC for the minimum requirements notably below thousand dollar.If you have a group at home, do you really absolutely need all the digital stuff? I played around with a few character generators, but in the end, I always return to &quot;hand-crafted&quot; Open Office Text Documents for writing down my characters. (Incidentally, currently I use my MacBook for this stuff)You can use Gleemax (for free!) without Windows. Other parts of the DDI are indeed unavailable to you. (That doesn't mean you shouldn't wait till Gleemax flaws are fixed, though <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.)I do not think that the 3D intensive stuff is suited for the iPhone, the iPod Touch or any other hand-held. Not for the next few years, at least. And that's still the main reason why they are relying on DirectX and thus Windows - the 3D Effects.I still don't know how hard it would be to convert the non-3D stuff to other platforms. (And even less do I know whether they will do it all, but I really hope so.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 3851275, member: 710"] I don't think he needs it, because it should be obvious to any Mac owner whether he can dual boot or not. I hope it's also obvious (to both Mac Users and WotC) that dual-booting doesn't come free. You need BootCamp, whose Beta Phase is now over and is supposed to cost money if you're still using Mac OS Tiger , and you still need Windows License (which isn't free except in a few corner cases, like the MSDN Academic Alliance) to have anything to dual boot. If you see using the Virtual Game Table and the Character Portrait Builder (or what it is called) as a main component of your hobby, it appears so. Except your price seems a bit too high, I think you can a get a decent Windows PC for the minimum requirements notably below thousand dollar. If you have a group at home, do you really absolutely need all the digital stuff? I played around with a few character generators, but in the end, I always return to "hand-crafted" Open Office Text Documents for writing down my characters. (Incidentally, currently I use my MacBook for this stuff) You can use Gleemax (for free!) without Windows. Other parts of the DDI are indeed unavailable to you. (That doesn't mean you shouldn't wait till Gleemax flaws are fixed, though :).) I do not think that the 3D intensive stuff is suited for the iPhone, the iPod Touch or any other hand-held. Not for the next few years, at least. And that's still the main reason why they are relying on DirectX and thus Windows - the 3D Effects. I still don't know how hard it would be to convert the non-3D stuff to other platforms. (And even less do I know whether they will do it all, but I really hope so.) [/QUOTE]

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