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- Misinformant, on 03/15/2008, -22/+138If you wanted to game, why did you buy a Mac?
You don't hear me bitching that my 360 doesn't have Photoshop. - JBravada, on 03/15/2008, -4/+54This headline was misleading- I thought there would be 'tips' to make the macbook better for gaming not just a one sentence plea at the end of the article.
- Charlatan22, on 03/15/2008, -13/+62Macbook pro's have their own video cards. if you really want to play games you shell out for the pro over the normal macbook. I don't see it as that big of a deal.
- inactive, on 03/15/2008, -4/+30Okay, I can't use Photoshop as an excuse. How about this: my 360 has this annoying red light on it.
- jasonsalas, on 03/15/2008, -5/+31in the mid-90's i used to prefer my Mac for games...i did SimCity, Dark Forces and the original Warcraft.
- bambooshoot, on 03/15/2008, -5/+28Mac can has windoze?
- mattluiz, on 08/28/2009, -9/+31Starcraft runs great on my Macbook.
- dOOBiEx213, on 03/15/2008, -1/+20Starcraft runs great on a cellphone. Not saying much there.
- kurtwinter, on 03/15/2008, -4/+231 - Intel GMA sucks. Always have, always will. Integrated graphics from Nvidia and ATI are good enough but... 2 - Apple needs to differentiate the regular from pro lines, and besides cosmetics, the only real difference is in the graphics core.
So by changing chipset providers from Intel to a "better" provider, for lack of a better word, as Intel's chipsets are great but their graphics suck, Apple will take a step down on reliability, lose a strong partnership and blur the line between two product lines. - dondara, on 03/15/2008, -2/+19Ya know, the fanboy in me was going to bury ya then I got your point. OSX will never be a gaming platform because the customer base isn't about gaming.
- bambooshoot, on 03/15/2008, -5/+22USB mouse and you're sorted :)
- bambooshoot, on 03/15/2008, -0/+15it's more like keeping the same house and installing a second sink actually.
- mattluiz, on 08/28/2009, -3/+18http://www.apple.com/games/
- stalefries, on 03/15/2008, -0/+14And at my college, fully 1/3 to 1/2 of all the laptops I see at any given time are Macbooks or Macbook Pros.
- Lionhart, on 03/15/2008, -2/+14Are you suggesting its a bad idea for gaming to become "good" in OS X? The reason you are asking "If you wanted to game, why did you buy a Mac?" is the very reason this needs to be fixed.
- cricketsymphony, on 03/15/2008, -0/+11good luck with starcraft II
- WiburTN, on 08/14/2009, -2/+13If I could just play some Valve games on my Mac I would shut the ***** up about mac gaming forever...
- xaxxon, on 03/15/2008, -1/+12installing windows doesn't get you a faster video card.
- BMANZZS, on 03/15/2008, -0/+11If you really want to play games, don't buy a MacBook period.
- WermerSkoch, on 03/15/2008, -1/+12I think the point is that those two things need not be mutually exclusive (either have a mac, or be able to play modern games).
- alv22, on 03/15/2008, -3/+14I've never been happier with a computer than this one. Mostly I can stay on the safe and fluffy side of OS X, work on stuff really effectively and do whatever I used to do with my Windows. Then again, if I want to game or just fool around in an another OS, I can boot camp to windows and do my stuff there. Both OSes can read and write to each other's partitions when I need. (Got a file on your NTFS partition you can't for some reason delete? Boot OS X, delete the file, boom. Gone.)
Both OSes work absolutely fine. Obviously OS X works the way it should, but to my surprise so does Windows. Closing the lid to sleep the computer, all the volume controls, wireless networks, every key on my finnish keyboard with its oddities works fine. *****, even the remote they ship with macs works neat on Windows! No crashes or other trouble, and I have to admit that I've never had a snappier Windows experience on any computer, and this one is a Mac.
On the OS X side, when that UNIX tooth aches, I can boot to a shell and fix stuff on the command line, like I like it in the linux world. When I want to game, my windows can run Crysis and Bioshock on most of the settings on medium, really pretty enough, with 40+ fps. Games like oblivion and f.e.a.r run very smoothly with settings all the way up.
What is this strange machine I'm typing on? I carry it with me just about all the time. It weighs about 5 pounds and is an inch thick, enclosed in metal. That's a Macbook Pro. - johnpaul191, on 03/15/2008, -0/+11I don't intend to play games on my Macbook, and here's my question for you gamer types. Would a better graphics chip mean a hotter machine and worse battery life? If so, then i would prefer it to be a BTO option if anything.
- triskele, on 03/15/2008, -0/+10RTFA: No mention of game selection is made.
- triskele, on 03/15/2008, -8/+17If you want to game on a Mac laptop suck it up and get a MacBook Pro. Don't complain that your economy laptop doesn't have a dedicated video card.
- inactive, on 03/15/2008, -14/+23For everyone who thinks that there are no Mac games:
http://www.apple.com/games/
http://www.gogamer.com/Mac-Games_stcVVcatId444742V ... - XxXKUL, on 03/15/2008, -0/+91) I create patches so I don't need a cd
2) Just buy a mouse
Plus I play crysis, Call of duty 4, bioshock, gears of war on my laptop... everything runs so smooth - kee440, on 03/15/2008, -0/+9I just want AudioSurf for my Macbook :(
- BryanJK, on 03/15/2008, -5/+13get a controller or an external mouse?
- Urkel, on 03/16/2008, -1/+9You don't see it to be a big deal to shell out $500-1500 extra simply to play games?
The state of computing nowadays is at the point where even the cheapest $500 machine still comes equipped with a fairly powerful processor, ample memory and HDD space to handle 99% of the games available. The ONLY reason these can't play games are because of the weak video.
Windows machines have an excuse for going cheap on video because a $500 notebook needs to have their specs cut somewhere. But on a $1500 Macbook (which I own two of) then there's no excuses to have stuck with the $3 Intel 950 for so long and to not offer an ALTERNATIVE video card option for those who don't mind tossing in another $100 for an Nvidia 8600.
It's obviously a moneygrab and Apple can do whatever they want. But let's not tell people we're supposed to be "cool with it". - zmjone2992, on 03/15/2008, -3/+10Dead? I don't think so. Slowing down for sure, but pc gaming is not likely to die any time soon. Ever tried playing an rts on a console?
- triskele, on 03/15/2008, -1/+8I wasn't aware of hardware constraints preventing the MBP from being a competent gaming machine. MacBook on the other hand, not gonna happen.
- KielKilla, on 03/15/2008, -2/+9***** YEAH! CARS THE GAME!
- RoxStar1968, on 03/15/2008, -2/+9That's why MacBook Pro was invented
- Anth, on 03/15/2008, -2/+9Hopefully Apple does get the message. Intel is coming out with their X4500HD integrated video chipset which is supposed to have 3x the performance of the current GMA3100. That puts it right about the ATI 2400 HD peformance. Not bad. Its not going to be that high performance, but its a kick in the pants for sure.
Now the question is how long will it take Apple to actually put these parts in the MacBooks since they usually lag in terms of being kept up to date (with the exception of the most recent out of cycle update). - cricketsymphony, on 03/15/2008, -4/+11you're right! how dare we leave out titles like Bubble Blast, Hoyle Card Games 2008, and Monopoly!
- bambooshoot, on 03/15/2008, -3/+9Because for most of the population gaming is something to do in your spare time when you're bored, not something you base buying something for work on
- inactive, on 03/15/2008, -5/+11How dare you present evidence that contradicts my Apple prejudice!
- igob8a, on 03/15/2008, -0/+6Wow that's awesome. Only a decade old :)
- muchocheeto, on 03/16/2008, -1/+7It's the OS...
- jgtg32a, on 03/15/2008, -0/+6and OpenGL
- bbardlbradd, on 03/15/2008, -2/+8I've been playing Urban Terror 4.1 on my iBook G4. It's a free cross-platform FPS. Lucky me though, the iBook (not a performance model notebook) came with the ATI 9550 @4xAGP.
- katorga, on 03/15/2008, -1/+7The majority of ALL laptops sold have Intel integrated graphics. It is not limited to Macbooks. If you want to game on your lappy, it is up to the consumer to read the specs and purchase a machine with a decent dedicated GPU.
- WoollyMittens, on 03/16/2008, -0/+6I thought the article would give me pointers on how to make my macbook better for gaming. Instead it's a rant against the manufacturer. Not very helpful.
- UKsHaDoW, on 03/15/2008, -0/+5Yeah but apple can't really can't do much about that, unless devs decide to dev for os x.
- fibreoptix, on 03/15/2008, -2/+7Steve Jobs hates gaming and puppies.
- magus_melchior, on 03/15/2008, -0/+5Most likely, and dedicated graphics RAM as opposed to shared RAM would bring the price up as well.
- KMartSheriff, on 03/15/2008, -3/+8Love OS X and my Mac, but I'll happily install Windows to run some games. Bootcamp FTW.
- Spikeli27, on 03/15/2008, -2/+7well probably power consumption and the heat created by good graphics cards is hard to get rid of in small laptop
- starkruzr, on 03/15/2008, -0/+5 That's because they do.
The slowest MBP is now a 2.4GHz Penryn-powered machine with a minimum of 256MB of texture RAM feeding a 8600M GT. The FUD about there being "no games for Macs" and no good Macs for playing games has been false for years now. - triskele, on 03/15/2008, -0/+5But when you have a choice between two lines of notebooks and you chose the one without dedicated video don't complain that it sucks for gaming. It's not Apple's fault the author of the article is an idiot.
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