Spore Hates your Macbook

I was just talking with a friend of mine, who was really, really excited about spore.  He even got a new computer to play it, just a year ago.

The thing is, my friend got a macbook, and if you have a macbook made earlier than late 2007, no Spore for you.

The problem is that until late 2007, Apple was making Macbooks with the GMA 950 graphics card embedded, after which it was upgraded to the GMA X3100.  Spore explicitly does not support the GMA 950.  I told you that you should have bought a PC.  None of the Macbook Pro line have this issue.

That said, I think this is more a Maxis fail than an Apple fail.  They’ve got like, 4 video cards guys, you couldn’t support one that was brand new in the system less than a year ago?  Fail, and fail hard.

[Update] If you run Windows XP in Boot Camp, however, it runs fine.  This seems to just be an issue with the GMA 950 on OS X.  Isn’t that interesting.

[Update]: xkcd brings up a solution for Mac Owners: