Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-End PCs

Re:Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-E... by JoshTko on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:34AM (#25333111)

I built a gaming PC last year, spent ~$1,300 and nearly 40 hours researching/assembling. But I'm actually happy just gaming on my M1 Mac mini ($699). Obviously the M1 isn't great for AAA games but for most games it's great.

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Re:Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-E... by neogodless on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:39AM (#25333168)

What are the games you typically play on the M1?

I'd consider an Apple laptop if I knew any game I wanted to play would work, and I never play the latest AAA games. But so far I checked and StarCraft 2 does not seem to play well, despite being a 12 year old game. (That may change with software updates?)

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Re:Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-E... by EricE on Monday December 07, 2020 @02:48PM (#25336331)

Check out this guy's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-hl32h5CokBhlGu95C1Xg

I was all set to replace my 2015 MBA with an M1 MBA, but in watching his (and others) Cities:Skylines performance I'm now thinking I may switch to gaming on Mac full time. Only problem is 16GB of RAM is NOT going to cut it with C:S - so I now am waiting for the next batch. 32GB should be plenty and I would be shocked if the next group of machines didn't have at least one laptop that could go to 32GB.

Hopefully still HBM too.

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Re:Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-E... by JoshTko on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:12PM (#25341277)

Sampling of how different games run on M1. Note Macbook Air has a slightly weaker GPU and no fan.

https://youtu.be/qkmSNtzQm-o

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Re:Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-E... by danaris on Monday December 07, 2020 @11:18AM (#25333566)

There's a user-submitted list here: https://applesilicongames.com

Looks like at least some people have had good luck with StarCraft II.

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Re:Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-E... by naravara on Monday December 07, 2020 @04:30PM (#25337838)

I'm currently strongly conflicted on whether I should bother building a PC. I had been wanting to do one for years, but now that I have the space and the money I find I don't actually have time to justify the expense for how little I play.

I'm hoping a cloud gaming service takes off that works more like a dedicated remote desktop rather than an a la carte storefront the way they all seem to be.

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