Pc to Mac - Gaming on a mini

Hello, I'm totally new to the Mac world and love the look of it. I've been a PC user for a decade and would like to make the switch, and mainly because I want a machine to do work (print and web design) and less gaming. BUT I would like to be able to play my Steam games and other pc games.
I've heard about Bootcamp and wondered if on a Mac, it would run the games much better than on a native PC. I've heard that some games run better on a bootcamp/Mac OS/System, is this true?
The games I play are:
Company of Heroes ALOT
Bad Company 2
Half Life 2
Thanks for Listening. I hope to purchase the new Mac Mini soon.
Graham

grahamwookie wrote:
Hello, I'm totally new to the Mac world and love the look of it. I've been a PC user for a decade and would like to make the switch, and mainly because I want a machine to do work (print and web design) and less gaming. BUT I would like to be able to play my Steam games and other pc games.
I've heard about Bootcamp and wondered if on a Mac, it would run the games much better than on a native PC. I've heard that some games run better on a bootcamp/Mac OS/System, is this true?
The games I play are:
Company of Heroes ALOT
Bad Company 2
Half Life 2
A Mac using BootCamp to run Windows means the Mac is really running Windows literally just like a real PC. with BootCamp the Windows is not running in an emulator, or virtualisation engines it is 100% real unadulterated Windows. In theory a Mac of the same specification as a PC i.e. with the same speed chips etc. should run Windows at the same speed as a real PC. However real PCs usually are shipped with lots of bloatware which clogs up the PC and slows it down. If you yourself install a fresh copy of Windows on a Mac via BootCamp it will not come with all that bloatware. As a result the Mac might in fact feel faster than an otherwise identical speed PC.
If you ran Windows on a Mac via Parallels, or VMWare then these are virtualisation solutions. They have the advantage that you can then simultaneously run both Mac and Windows applications but the Windows applications will not run as fast as BootCamp which is Windows only. Games are very demanding so BootCamp is probably the best approach.
If you are going to be running games on this Mac mini you should make sure you choose the slightly higher spec model with the AMD video chip.

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