DERP_IN_THE_FACE, on Mar 15 2017 - 14:20, said:
basically, if you want the game to run well and be pretty, you buy a pc. If you just want to play and don't care too much about the eye candy, use a mac. I have no idea what specs macs can have nor am I interested in knowing. All I can say is from prior experience it runs mostly okay on any computer that can run an exe file.....
It is never black and white as MS Windows versus macOS ... it is about what works for you.
Basically you buy a computer based on several things - your budget, will it be your primary machine and if so what apps do you need to run, are you familiar with the OS?
As a person who has run Linux, OS/2, MS Windows, OS X, Mac OS, Solaris for Intel as well as macOS - I find myself coming back to the Mac [Apple-branded Intel-based hardware and macOS].
Several reasons for that ...
In my experience [have been using Macs since 1991] is that my Mac hardware outlives my non-Mac hardware. I have a 2011 27-inch iMac that still plays the game well. My Late 2015 27-inch iMac 5K Retina is great - able to run two 27-inch screens [2560x1440 - billions of colors] and a RAID-Z drive with macOS without a hiccup - MS Windows 10 Pro requires me to disconnect the monitors and RAID drive just so it can update itself. Was able to triple-boot on the same hardware [Linux, OS X, MS Windows] so I had option using the best OS for the app I needed to run.
If I did not want to boot out of macOS - I just run an emulator like Parallels. Either Linux or MS Windows runs in a window in macOS with little/no performance hits [because I have 32GB RAM and a PCIe SSD].
Or I ran WINE [Wine Is Not an Emulator] and with the advances in the WINE environment there is less and less reason to get MS Windows to run MS Windows apps. 64-bit support was just added for macOS in WINE 2.0 - now if WarGaming would just update the game to a 64-bit app but they probably will not since it seems the majority of the MS Windows base is still running 32-bit [Mac hardware has been using x86-64 processors with a 64-bit OS since 2011]. WOW is a way but it will never have parity with native 64-bit MS Windows calls.
macOS always seems to just work ... no need to fuss around. If I want to fuss around then I just boot into MS Windows or Linux.
In summary - buy what works best for you based on your budget, what you are going to use the hardware for, and your experience with a OS.
For some people that is MS Windows, for others it is macOS, and for others it is Linux.
p.s. The WoT Mac Wrapper consistently runs 90/100 FPS with two monitors versus MS Windows 10 Pro at 60/70 FPS on a single monitor [drops to about 50 FPS with two monitors] on my iMac 5K Retina so I see no reason to buy a PC [Intel-based hardware running MS Windows].
Edited by black_colt, Mar 16 2017 - 16:22.