im thinking on buying any of these games starcraft 2, portal 2, assassins creed brotherhood, amnesia the dark descent as they are so cheap , really cheap compared to the xbox 360 games, and i think my macbook is decent enough for this games well here are my specs:
4gb ram
intel core 2 duo 2.4ghz
geforce320m 256mb
thanks for your help
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Yeah, you should be fine playing those...
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depends on if you dont mind playing on low graphic settings
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via bootcamp...
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kornchild2002 Notebook Deity
Nvidia's stock drivers under Windows are better than Apple's drivers under bootcamp and OS X. You will get much better performance through Windows out of the 320M. They are still going to require that you run them at lower settings possibly (and likely) looking worse than their console counterparts but they can still be run.
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apple really needs to make a real gaming laptop
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kornchild2002 Notebook Deity
Not really. Right now, developers are still favoring the Windows environment and a large portion of OS X games are Windows ports anyway. There is no motivation for developers to release non-App Store games especially whenever Windows hardware still outsells Apple's. Not only that but Apple would likely charge an arm, a leg, and ask for the soul of my first born Son if they were to come out with a true gaming laptop. The 17" MBP is already expensive enough, I would hate to see one with gaming hardware in it.
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^ I also agree with above. Apple MBPs are known for their famed thinness, and for a MBP to sufficiently cool a high lvl gpu, it would require bigger fans, hence increasing the thickness. Also, their chassis just don't have proper vent placement, and it would drastically change the design to allow proper airflow. MBP17 2011 has a mid-range gpu, which is more than capable of playing the most current games in med-high settings. Putting a high end gpu in there would only make the price get into the unjustifiable range, even for hardcore mapple fans.
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Here's a pretty complete gaming/graphics review I made of the Macbook you have:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/apple-mac-os-x/527864-2010-macbook-pro-13-graphics.html -
will my macbook pro run this games?
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by alex5523, Jun 11, 2011.