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    17 inch macbook pro and WoW

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by ASyme, Jun 14, 2007.

  1. ASyme

    ASyme Notebook Guru

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    Anyone had any experience of how these two work together? I'm likely to be playing a few ongoing MMORPG's down the line (such as warhammer online) but WoW's been my steady gaming habit for ages now...
     
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    aznofazns Performance Junkie

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    not sure but you could always use boot camp and install windows as a 2nd OS and use that to play games.
     
    aznofazns, Jun 14, 2007
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    puresniper Notebook Enthusiast

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    WoW, like many Blizzard games run natively in Mac OS. Just watch Job's keynote, you'll see WoW make a cameo appearance. From what I know, the performance in Mac OS is very close to that of under windows.
     
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  4. ASyme

    ASyme Notebook Guru

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    Aye... was aware of that (lovelly people that Blizz are...). I was expecting to play wow on a mac OS - but had memories of trying a friends imac and being horrified how badly it compared to my aging pc - both in screen resolution and frame rate. I was assuming the powerbook pro with its new specs would preform rather better?
     
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    ourfinal Notebook Geek

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    from what i've heard it will run pretty damn good in os x. having the specs on your friends imac would make answering that alot easier
     
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    Sadly I've not got a clue... One of the G5s - 20 inch screen. I know it's maximum refresh rate was a less than inspiring 65 Hertz
     
    ASyme, Jun 15, 2007
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