He's not that wrong, but it depends on the scene.
Resolution is different though, 1920x1200 vs 1920x1080.
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Apple CAN’T do AAA gaming [Merged Megathread]
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Resolution is different though, 1920x1200 vs 1920x1080.
Careful, calling out mitchy has got me banned on more than one occasion. Don’t want you to go to purgatory too!
I swear this is the answer that sane, rational people come to in every thread like this and it still hasn’t sunk in.
Fair, though it seems like the MacBook Air is CPU limited more than the others.
I will admit I was wrong though. Shens retracted.
Hmmm, as pointed, out different resolution, different settings (low vs lowest etc). The usual nonsense from the master of hashcat.
I was off when I said cost was about the same. MBA M1 16GB/1TB is actually $1899 vs $1200 for Lenovo Legion 5 5800H/3060/16GB/1TB so 1.6x the cost for 1/6th the performance. That's going to hinder Mac gaming adoption.
I actually got the bottom two (in the still) mixed up. The M1 isn’t CPU limited.
Going from 1920x1080 to 1920x1200 and lowest to low isn't going to drop 100+ FPS though.
Here's the same thing with High settings (still 1920x1080 though).
What's the point of comparing an RTX 3060 to an ultrabook GPU (M1)?
Sure, you can find gaming laptops that beat ultrabooks in performance at a lower price (and much higher weight, abysmal battery life, poor build quality overall).
As for the difference between lowest and low settings in SoTR, the difference in quality is huge. Much bigger than between low and ultra.
Sure, you can find gaming laptops that beat ultrabooks in performance at a lower price (and much higher weight, abysmal battery life, poor build quality overall).
As for the difference between lowest and low settings in SoTR, the difference in quality is huge. Much bigger than between low and ultra.
Exactly. If you want to game on several titles and forgo the watered down versions, you have to have a side gaming Windows machine. There is no way around it.
Furthermore, some games never even come to the Mac due to the smaller market of the Mac vs PC.
I built a nice gaming computer (a while ago) and it still works just fine for my favorites (Cities: Skylines, Surviving Mars, AOE2 DE and others)
Ah yes, tell me more about those Mac only games that you play.
In fairness, Apple had been announcing the 64bit to 32 bit switch in 2018, game developers should have updated their games.
But yes, it is a darn shame that Apple did not retain 32bit support via a Rosetta type interface.
And the changes from 32bit to 64 bit, and from OpenGL to Metal and from Intel to M1 is not helping gaming on a mac as a situation, nor does it instill confidence in developers that their investment in both games and skill will carry forward when support (and therefore future sales) might be cut at a moments notice.
There aren’t a lot of arguments to make about macOS AAA gaming.
It’s still a good thread, though, as looking up some of the claims made sends me on searches that bring me to a deeper understanding of the whole thing. I’d assume it does the same for a few others.It's better to buy from Steam, because you can then play the games on any supported platform. Even if you have only Macs today, you can't know for sure what you will have in the future.
And a Mac serves how well as a console right now? Or as a TV box?
Again, different markets.
Yup, not to mention the whole trying to upgrade your gaming setup without having to throw away the entire thing.Hey glad to see we agree on something
I think you're confused. I meant that I couldn't find any games I wanted to play full-stop.
This is correct. I never claimed to be a "gamer", I just sometimes enjoy playing video games (except right now everything except Elden Ring is garbage)Lies, your are not even a gamer.