The Mac is great for manipulating and generally tweaking graphics and has achieved a status as pretty much the best in that field but why can't it shift its pixels onscreen very fast ie. why are Mac arcade game's graphics generally so slow? A scrolling Mac game? Forget it!
I am a game developer and am frustrated by this apparent hardware inability. How much would it cost Apple to stick some simple custom graphics chip in to speed things up a bit and what about some built in sprite handling hardware? You can buy an Amiga with all this and more for a couple of hundred pounds.
In these days of Multimedia, Virtual reality and ever more demanding games and applications surely such an enhancement would be a good selling point for Apple.
Has anyone noticed the disgustingly cheap and PCish floppy drives Apple has been sticking on the newer Macs. There is no 'pull in' when you have pushed it in and the clunk as eventually you wrestle it into position is horrible. I just hope that they don't do away with the 'spitting out' - This detail is the epitomy of Mac niceness and hardware being in software control.
