Round 1

PLAYING GAMES

Of all the possible criteria, remits, and requirements, gaming provides the most unambiguous winner. It’s a nailed-down, copper-bottomed certainty that the PC is the better choice. There are far more games for the PC, and where the same game is available on both platforms, it runs better on PC. The end.

Likewise, before anyone suggests using Boot Camp as a quick-change option for transforming a Mac into a gaming PC, that only works up to a point. That’s because of a Mac’s limited configurability. Trying sticking an Nvidia Titan Xp into a trashcan Mac Pro. Yeah, right. By contrast, the PC has a wealth of options in terms of components that enable you to max out your gaming performance at any given price point.

The possible exception to this may arrive with the upcoming new Mac Pro. Apple says the new model will major on configurability, so it’s just possible that we may finally have a desktop Mac with some reasonable upgrade chops. In that scenario, dual-booting a Mac into Windows via Boot Camp might make a decent part-time gaming rig. Until then, it’s PC all day long, and thrice on Sundays. See ya, Mac!

WINNER: PC by a mile