Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077 at Ultra on an M1 MBP

Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by singhrac on Thursday June 08, 2023 @01:03PM (#36245142)

I suspect we might have to agree to disagree here, but the T450 and 2015 MBP make very different tradeoffs. I might be looking at the wrong model, but I see a 1600x900 screen (while my MBP had a 2560x1600 screen), and (admittedly high quality) plastic case vs aluminum. Immediately before the MBP I owned a Dell XPS laptop that stopped charging ~2 years into ownership.

Aren't the processors not upgradeable in either case? I really doubt you could happily use a Haswell i5 processor in 2023 without feeling limited.. even if just because software (the OS, websites, etc.) assume a higher performance floor.

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Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by goosedragons on Friday June 09, 2023 @08:24AM (#36256772)

Obviously there's tradeoffs. Your previous post mentioned that a 2017 MBP is still usable on Ventura and supported until 2025, is a 2017 14nm dual core i5 really a huge leap over a 2015 14nm dual core i5? Which would be more usable the one stuck at 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD and a bit faster CPU or the one upgraded with 16GB RAM (~$40), a $70 1TB SSD and a slower CPU?

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