Macbook Pro Gaming

Ok I know this is a PC foruma nd all that but cmon please bear with me:

I dont want to build a whole PC just for gaming so I want to just do whatever I can with the new laptop I might be purchasing. I had my mind set on a Macbook low end but the Macbook Pro doesnt look too bad. It has that multi touch, backlighting and higher resolution.

So can the Macbook Pro play these games and how well:
World in Conflict
Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare
Elder Scrolls Oblivion
Civ IV
Company of Heroes

and not so important:
Portal
Battlefield 2
Gears of War
Assassins Creed
Command and Conquer (the new one)

i would love to answer your question, but honestly have no idea about what a macBook is...

first you should just check if those games are available for mac.

if yes, then i think it is very easy to find out if theyll run on your mac just by reading the min requirement on the packages. scince i believe apple macs have numbers and names for their computers...

Sorry my friend but Mac and gaming don't get along very well. You know what I mean.

I would by a Macbook, for internet and word processing. For games go with PC. You WILL save money and will be able to upgrade, not so much on a laptop, at least. If you want a laptop for games check out the new Dell XPS with the dual 8800 GTXs.

Sorry my friend but Mac and gaming don't get along very well. You know what I mean.

I would by a Macbook, for internet and word processing. For games go with PC. You WILL save money and will be able to upgrade, not so much on a laptop, at least. If you want a laptop for games check out the new Dell XPS with the dual 8800 GTXs.

Angry_Bosmer

Are you advising him to save money or to waste his cash on a Dell XPS laptop with dual 8800M GTX cards?

The Macbook Pro with the 8600M GT should do fine with most of those games. Not at max settings or anything (well, except Civilization IV and Battlefield 2), but you'll definitely be able to get perfectly reasonable frame-rates at medium in all those games. You'll need to dual-boot to Windows for most of them I believe though.RayvinAzn

Yup, what Rayvin said.

My friend has a MBP with 8600m and he plays CSS and TF2 all the time on his WinXp partion with a very nice frame rate. It's by far one of the nicest laptops I've seen. Go for it, OP.

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Sorry my friend but Mac and gaming don't get along very well. You know what I mean.

I would by a Macbook, for internet and word processing. For games go with PC. You WILL save money and will be able to upgrade, not so much on a laptop, at least. If you want a laptop for games check out the new Dell XPS with the dual 8800 GTXs.

RayvinAzn

Are you advising him to save money or to waste his cash on a Dell XPS laptop with dual 8800M GTX cards?

I don't think the prices of the top of the line XPS laptop and the top of the line mac book pro have alot of difference in price, it just depends if you customize them or not. Plus one advantage of the Mac is leopard, for GarageBand, iMovie etc.

Still SLi in a laptop is stupidly awesome!

There are some games ported to Mac, search for them....programs like Wine, Cedega (for Linux) and Cider are there so take a look at them.

But yeah, its a very long road ahead for Macs in terms of gaming

There are some games ported to Mac, search for them....programs like Wine, Cedega (for Linux) and Cider are there so take a look at them.

But yeah, its a very long road ahead for Macs in terms of gaming

gm84

Bootcamp to Windows XP or Vista... Where Macs went they don't need roads.

I don't think the prices of the top of the line XPS laptop and the top of the line mac book pro have alot of difference in price, it just depends if you customize them or not. Plus one advantage of the Mac is leopard, for GarageBand, iMovie etc.

Still SLi in a laptop is stupidly awesome!

themovi3nut

The top of the line Dell costs $4k as a baseline. The top of the line Macbook Pro starts at $2800. That's a pretty significant difference in price. And a hugely significant difference in battery life.

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I don't think the prices of the top of the line XPS laptop and the top of the line mac book pro have alot of difference in price, it just depends if you customize them or not. Plus one advantage of the Mac is leopard, for GarageBand, iMovie etc.

Still SLi in a laptop is stupidly awesome!

RayvinAzn

The top of the line Dell costs $4k as a baseline. The top of the line Macbook Pro starts at $2800. That's a pretty significant difference in price. And a hugely significant difference in battery life.

XPSs start at 2K!

XPSs start at 2K!

Angry_Bosmer

Hell, screw the 4K Dell go for this

http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/area-51_m17x/area-51m_overview.aspx?SysCode=PC-LT-AREA51M17X&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT