Re:MacBook Pro
by mozumder on Thursday October 27, 2016 @04:35PM
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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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> Why would anyone need a desktop in this day and age?
This is what I was responding to.
Re:MacBook Pro
by icebraining on Thursday October 27, 2016 @06:53PM
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Yes, but the context of the thread is graphics design.
Re:MacBook Pro
by IntelMiner on Thursday October 27, 2016 @05:42PM
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Gaming on Mac is rapidly approaching parity with Windows, ironically helped a lot by Linux and Valve
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?
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.
Re:MacBook Pro
by IntelMiner on Friday October 28, 2016 @09:24AM
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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 :)
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).
CS GO worked good enough on Mac and Linux last time I checked