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Re:MacBook Pro by vdnkh on Thursday October 27, 2016 @04:23PM (#12809594)
I'm not sure if you're being facetious but for those of us who enjoy playing video games a desktop is the best choice. If you don't care about portability, why not get something that is by far more powerful, cheaper, customizable, and future-proof?
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Re:MacBook Pro by mozumder on Thursday October 27, 2016 @04:35PM (#12809754)
You're in the wrong discussion if you think gaming has any relevance to this line of laptops. People that own Macbook Pros don't play games seriously. Gaming is strictly for Windows devices, as it's largely an afterthought in the Mac world.
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Re:MacBook Pro by vdnkh on Thursday October 27, 2016 @04:51PM (#12809960)
> Why would anyone need a desktop in this day and age?

This is what I was responding to.

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Re:MacBook Pro by icebraining on Thursday October 27, 2016 @06:53PM (#12811110)
Yes, but the context of the thread is graphics design.
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Re:MacBook Pro by IntelMiner on Thursday October 27, 2016 @05:42PM (#12810522)
Gaming on Mac is rapidly approaching parity with Windows, ironically helped a lot by Linux and Valve
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Re:MacBook Pro by Neeek on Thursday October 27, 2016 @08:50PM (#12811885)
Are there many more studios outside of Blizzard that are developing for OS X? I hadn't realized there were more devs working with it. Every other game I know of that has Mac support is usually running in some WINE equivalent which isn't great.

So we have Blizzard and Source engine, who am I missing?

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Re:MacBook Pro by EpicEng on Friday October 28, 2016 @01:50AM (#12813427)
Ahaha ahaha... No, no it's not. I can't imagine you play any 'serious' games. Hell, even WoW, a game which is well supported by the developer on OSX, plays like crap on my $2600 MVP.
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Re:MacBook Pro by IntelMiner on Friday October 28, 2016 @09:24AM (#12815493)
Going by my recently played list on Steam

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197998185123/games/?...

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition: Win

Team Fortress 2: Win/Mac/Lin

Factorio: Win/Mac/Lin

Rocket League: Win/Mac/Lin

Particle Fleet: Emergence: Win/Mac/Lin

SHENZHEN I/O: Win/Mac/Linux

Oil Rush: Win/Mac/Linux

Castle Crashers: Win/Mac

Tropico 5: Win/Mac/Linux

Literally every game I've played recently except ONE supports Mac

Obviously I'm not a "serious" gamer :)

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Re:MacBook Pro by EpicEng on Friday October 28, 2016 @10:43AM (#12816367)
Well, I should have worded that better, shouldn't have been so dismissive. By 'serious' I meant 'resource intensive'. I don't know all of those games, bit the games I do know are definitely not very taxing on a GPU (aside from Skyrim, but what settings are yo uplaying it at? Does that seem worth it for the price tag?)

I don't think you'd argue that a mac is a good gaming rig from a performance / $ perspective (or any other perspective really).

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Re:MacBook Pro by rangibaby on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:54AM (#12813870)
CS GO worked good enough on Mac and Linux last time I checked
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Re:MacBook Pro by EpicEng on Friday October 28, 2016 @10:45AM (#12816383)
Define 'good enough'. These aren't inexpensive machines. In the context of gaming, $2600 is far too much to pay for a laptop that gets ~30fps at medium settings.
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