Hi there. A google search on when the Mac version of DA will be released brought me to this page. I felt like some of the responses to your question were completely unhelpful so wanted to chime in about my experences with Apple's Boot Camp. What was that crack-pot line about Macs being underpowered? May iMac is easlly double the recommended specs for running DA.. I do take the point that one needs newish hardware to run DA but that's to be expected because it's with a group of new games that are considered "next gen" for graphics resolution and experience factor. Anyway, I have years of experience with running Boot Camp on my iMac and I've become a big fan of the Dual Boot Machine.
Started with Windows XP and upgraded to SP3. Now I'm running Windows 8.1. At first it seemed too perverse to see the weak looking, unintuitive, Windows OS running on my beautiful iMac. Then I encountered Steam, Origin, and UPlay and realized the bonanza of games now at my finger tips. Once the game launches I'm not really aware of the OS anymore. Just like any piece of ported software it runs best on it's native operating system. So for that alone, most games run better on Windows than the port runs on Mac OS X. (If a game is available for Mac I buy it to support Mac Developers and most run well.)
So I plunged in and loved playing all of the blockbuster titles that never came to Mac. I noticed that they are cheaper, tend to go on sale more often, and comes with all of the expansions. Drives me nuts when a game is ported to Mac but not the expansion packs. Later today I'm going to start Call fo Duty: Advanced Warfare. I know it's been out for a while, but just went on sale on Steam for 33% off, which almost never happens with Mac game version.
The way I see it a dual-boot Mac is the ultimate PC.
I can boot into Max OS X and run any app or game I want natively.
or
I can boot into Windows and run any app or game I want natively.
I have access to the complete software catelog for TWO operating systems. No ports, No emulators. Everything runs natively.
Apply makes using Boot Camp Assistant so easy. It will create a Windows partition of your hard drive and automatically reboot to begin the Windows installation process. Because it's Windows you'll still need to do some tinkering--things are as intutively placed a we're use to. You will need an optical drive, and the Boot Camp Assistant will help you create a Windows drivers install that needs to be done on a thumb drive. The hardest part was shelling out a couple hundred dollars for a copy of Windows when Mac OS X was only $29 and now is free. At least it's something bought and used for many years. I used my Windows XP for many years. Only recently bought a new iMac and Windows 8 to get ready for the list of "next gen" games coming out.
Anyway, as long as Apple is using Intel processors in their computers they will be able to dual-boot to run any Intel-supported OSes natively--not just Windows or Mac OS X. Then you can natively run ALL software for ALL of those operating system. A single-OS bootable computer is really limiting.
A Dual-Boot Mac is the ultimate computer. And choosing which OS to boot into is as easy as holding down the option key at startup, and then selecting an OS.
I boot into Windows to play games. Then boot into Mac OS X to do anything important that needs extra security like online shopping or online banking or bills payments.
So don't by a PC single OS machine. That's so limiting and expensive. Just buy a copy of Windows and use Apple's free boot camp software and in about an hour you'll be browsing through Steam selecting a title to play.
Hope this helps and have fun!
