I’d rather get a more powerful Mac to game on at Ultra settings 4K 60FPS than a less powerful one AND a gaming laptop that runs the same game slightly better. No need to choose, no need to break my back.
Furthermore, I spend enough time in trains to know that a gaming laptop is simply useless without its power supply.
I had the choice to buy a $2000 MacBook Pro and a $2000 gaming laptop or a single $4000 MacBook Pro, I chose the latter.
I’m a Mac user since 2007, but my wife just switched to an M2 MBA after spending a little less than a year on a 2014 13 inches MBP. She told me she spent way much more money on PC’s during the 10 years lifespan (one every 3 years) than she would have if she bought a Mac directly. I now got 3 PC to run different flavors of Linux, which is nice for my geeky mind.
So maybe Apple laptops are overpriced the day you buy them, but on the longterm it’s not the case.
PS: I used to buy desktop gaming rig for “upgradability”. The fact that GPU performance drops so significantly when not plugged to the correct CPU/Motherboard makes the whole point irrelevant. The only thing you can upgrade on a desktop PC that you cannot on a Mac is the RAM (external SSD are good enough for laptops and desktops), which doesn’t seem like a huge selling point when having only 32Gb of RAM will never be the major bottleneck to future gaming.
Actually everything is soldered on the motherbord on the macbook. Even the wifi card and ssd. And to be fair more and more laptops are like that.
I have a macbook pro m2 from work and a personal asus laptop. And the asus is alot faster. So no, I don’t think you gain anything from a macbook. Also it has 2 ports, both usb c so you need dongles or docking station.
Also also, a pc can be upgraded with everything you need/want. But everything except ram and ssds are overpriced there too. So a really shit timeline either way… Everyone but big companies win, so don’t be a fanboy and research before you buy.
If your MacBook Pro has only 2 ports it means it’s the base model 13 inch M2, which is basically an MBA with fans.
No kidding your Asus is faster.
But your Asus battery will be dead in 3 years while mine will still be as good as new.
That and a bunch of other things like the quality of the chassis that doesn’t crack, the quality of the screen, the sound system, the reliability of macOS, etc.
But I get that as a PC user all you care about is raw power…
My MacBook Pro runs Baldur’s Gate 3, Metro Exodus and Lies Of P orders of magnitude better than my RTX 4060
Doesn’t help that your CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo
I got an M2 Max. I wasn’t sarcastic.
I’d rather get a more powerful Mac to game on at Ultra settings 4K 60FPS than a less powerful one AND a gaming laptop that runs the same game slightly better. No need to choose, no need to break my back.
Furthermore, I spend enough time in trains to know that a gaming laptop is simply useless without its power supply.
I had the choice to buy a $2000 MacBook Pro and a $2000 gaming laptop or a single $4000 MacBook Pro, I chose the latter.
Why loot yourself to a laptop? A full gaming PC can easily have better performance.
Because I travel a lot.
To be fair, both the macbook and nvidia gpus are overpriced
I’m a Mac user since 2007, but my wife just switched to an M2 MBA after spending a little less than a year on a 2014 13 inches MBP. She told me she spent way much more money on PC’s during the 10 years lifespan (one every 3 years) than she would have if she bought a Mac directly. I now got 3 PC to run different flavors of Linux, which is nice for my geeky mind.
So maybe Apple laptops are overpriced the day you buy them, but on the longterm it’s not the case.
PS: I used to buy desktop gaming rig for “upgradability”. The fact that GPU performance drops so significantly when not plugged to the correct CPU/Motherboard makes the whole point irrelevant. The only thing you can upgrade on a desktop PC that you cannot on a Mac is the RAM (external SSD are good enough for laptops and desktops), which doesn’t seem like a huge selling point when having only 32Gb of RAM will never be the major bottleneck to future gaming.
Actually everything is soldered on the motherbord on the macbook. Even the wifi card and ssd. And to be fair more and more laptops are like that. I have a macbook pro m2 from work and a personal asus laptop. And the asus is alot faster. So no, I don’t think you gain anything from a macbook. Also it has 2 ports, both usb c so you need dongles or docking station. Also also, a pc can be upgraded with everything you need/want. But everything except ram and ssds are overpriced there too. So a really shit timeline either way… Everyone but big companies win, so don’t be a fanboy and research before you buy.
If your MacBook Pro has only 2 ports it means it’s the base model 13 inch M2, which is basically an MBA with fans.
No kidding your Asus is faster.
But your Asus battery will be dead in 3 years while mine will still be as good as new.
That and a bunch of other things like the quality of the chassis that doesn’t crack, the quality of the screen, the sound system, the reliability of macOS, etc.
But I get that as a PC user all you care about is raw power…