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I wouldn’t buy one for gaming specifically, but I love gaming on a Mac with compatible games. Factorio runs fantastically.
My MacBook runs Civ VI orders of magnitude better than my Surface.
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.
Can’t wait to finally play Minesweeper on Mac!
Whoopie wants the four. Give her the four.
Me running Pokémon on a ti-84:
