Females now play more video games than men. And they play the vast majority on PCs. I don't even know if the games they like to play are available on Macs, except in their browser versions.
Well, that is certainly a consideration.
It does, however, seem that laptops are just fine for these types of games.
When you say video games you must be more specific. There are many women who computer game. It has been my experience (with some notable exceptions) that they are in the main more interested in the cooperative rather than the destructive sort of experience. World of Warcraft (a huge MMOG) has I believe a significant amount of female participation. But I've seen very few (well I have seen some but it depends on who you hang out with) women who will obsess over hardware tweaking to the extent that guys will, I never talked with a woman who would eat Ramen for a month to achieve a marginal video card upgrade. Males, however, will do this. Perhaps the crossover occurs in the strategy games arena, where the hardware requirements have become relatively steep but not on the order of the current generation of FPS. I would be willing to bet that at least 95% of high or moderately high end gaming systems owners are male. FWIW. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
