The Retina Macbook Pro is finally a gaming machine!

Yeah, I know that they are not economically worth it for gaming alone, but if you have other uses for the Mac OS, gaming over boot camp is just a bonus.

And Guess what? It can max skyrim at 1080P! With the 650m!

Found this video on youtube showcasing it. I also tried it myself, and found consistent results.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zaw7bXiLRqg&feature=plcp

At 25fps. http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-650M.71887.0.html

Also, if you are getting a $2199 laptop with 2880x1880 resolution, but only get to play games at 1920x1080 with lag maxed out, when you could be getting a laptop with a GTX 680M for $750 cheaper (Sager), then you are doing something wrong.

PS: GTX 680M allows you to play Skyrim at 1080p, x8AA x 16AF (completely unnecessary AA) while staying consistently between 59-60fps. Paying significantly more money for half the gaming performance is typical Mac logic. Use your Mac for other things, but when you claim it's good for gaming then I laugh at you.

1920 x 1200 Ultra Settings 8x Anti-Aliasing 8x Anisotropic Filtering --------- It should be; 1920 x 1200 Ultra Settings 2x Anti-Aliasing 16x Anisotropic Filtering Newbs don't know how to choose proper graphical settings.ShadowDeathX

If you're rocking 1920x1200, 2x or 4x AA is mroe than enough. 8x is just damn overkill.

at 1080p? LMAO. It can't play the game in its native resolution? The Retina display is way over 1080p. That's not maxing it out.

Why do you not have 16x anisotropic filtering?

[QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"]1920 x 1200 Ultra Settings 8x Anti-Aliasing 8x Anisotropic Filtering --------- It should be; 1920 x 1200 Ultra Settings 2x Anti-Aliasing 16x Anisotropic Filtering Newbs don't know how to choose proper graphical settings.Wasdie

If you're rocking 1920x1200, 2x or 4x AA is mroe than enough. 8x is just damn overkill.

[QUOTE="Wasdie"]

[QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"]1920 x 1200 Ultra Settings 8x Anti-Aliasing 8x Anisotropic Filtering --------- It should be; 1920 x 1200 Ultra Settings 2x Anti-Aliasing 16x Anisotropic Filtering Newbs don't know how to choose proper graphical settings.ShadowDeathX

If you're rocking 1920x1200, 2x or 4x AA is mroe than enough. 8x is just damn overkill.

[QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"][QUOTE="Wasdie"]

If you're rocking 1920x1200, 2x or 4x AA is mroe than enough. 8x is just damn overkill.

GhoX

Man, skyrim is an ugly game.

at 1080p? LMAO. It can't play the game in its native resolution? The Retina display is way over 1080p. That's not maxing it out.

Toxic-Seahorse

That doesn't really matter. When you get to those uber high resolutions, you don't really see a difference. No point in trying to hit the highest res possible.

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"]

at 1080p? LMAO. It can't play the game in its native resolution? The Retina display is way over 1080p. That's not maxing it out.

Wasdie

That doesn't really matter. When you get to those uber high resolutions, you don't really see a difference. No point in trying to hit the highest res possible.

This is the first Retina Macbook Pro, so I don't know why you said "finally."

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"]

at 1080p? LMAO. It can't play the game in its native resolution? The Retina display is way over 1080p. That's not maxing it out.

Wasdie

That doesn't really matter. When you get to those uber high resolutions, you don't really see a difference. No point in trying to hit the highest res possible.

[QUOTE="Wasdie"]

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"]

at 1080p? LMAO. It can't play the game in its native resolution? The Retina display is way over 1080p. That's not maxing it out.

Toxic-Seahorse

That doesn't really matter. When you get to those uber high resolutions, you don't really see a difference. No point in trying to hit the highest res possible.

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"][QUOTE="Wasdie"]

That doesn't really matter. When you get to those uber high resolutions, you don't really see a difference. No point in trying to hit the highest res possible.

GhoX

It's still $2200. :(Blabadon

Overpriced as all hell

[QUOTE="Blabadon"]It's still $2200. :(Masenkoe

Overpriced as all hell

Wow, what a waste.

[QUOTE="Masenkoe"]

[QUOTE="Blabadon"]It's still $2200. :(GhoX

Overpriced as all hell

How can you say max settings when you listed 1920x1200? 2880x1800 is the max res so you have to run Skyrim at that res to see it!!

[QUOTE="Wasdie"]

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"]

at 1080p? LMAO. It can't play the game in its native resolution? The Retina display is way over 1080p. That's not maxing it out.

Toxic-Seahorse

That doesn't really matter. When you get to those uber high resolutions, you don't really see a difference. No point in trying to hit the highest res possible.

Nah it doesn't. In fact, 1080p is supposed to look even sharper.

the experience.

[QUOTE="GhoX"][QUOTE="Masenkoe"]

Overpriced as all hell

rjdofu

also the one who decided the hardware is an idiot.

It's still $2200. :(Blabadon

[QUOTE="Masenkoe"]

[QUOTE="Blabadon"]It's still $2200. :(GhoX

Overpriced as all hell

[QUOTE="Blabadon"]It's still $2200. :(bbkkristian

Sorry, but Macbook Pro was not made to please poor PC owners. It's for people who are interested in a high-quality device and portable high-performance.

Sorry, but Macbook Pro was not made to please poor PC owners. It's for people who are interested in a high-quality device and portable high-performance.

Mr_BillGates

Garbage product in the shadow of MS Surface. I see it all the time now, people jumping off the apple ship. They make a mediocre product wrapped in a nice package with fantastical marketing and stupid proof OS that crashes more than any one apple fan will admit.Human-after-all

Did you own one?

$2200.......:lol:

[QUOTE="Mr_BillGates"]

Sorry, but Macbook Pro was not made to please poor PC owners. It's for people who are interested in a high-quality device and portable high-performance.

rjdofu

[QUOTE="Blabadon"]It's still $2200. :(bbkkristian

not very informed with PC gaming but I think its around $1500-$2000 if you want something high end.

[QUOTE="bbkkristian"][QUOTE="Blabadon"]It's still $2200. :(HAZE-Unit

not very informed with PC gaming but I think its around $1500-$2000 if you want something high end.

[QUOTE="HAZE-Unit"]

[QUOTE="bbkkristian"] Can't you build a gaming PC cheaper than that? MUCH cheaper than that??? :|k2theswiss

not very informed with PC gaming but I think its around $1500-$2000 if you want something high end.

is that a labtop?

[QUOTE="k2theswiss"][QUOTE="HAZE-Unit"]

not very informed with PC gaming but I think its around $1500-$2000 if you want something high end.

HAZE-Unit

is that a labtop?

My 700$ laptop can play every game out atm, no it cannot max them out an the mex res on it is only 1366, but!!! Gaming laptops should top out most games around 1200$. I can go find you one if you would like?

New Macbook Pro uses 650M, which is a decent mid range card. It won't be able to run anything mroe advanced on retina, but on lower res and after lowering some of the settings it does pretty well, at least if you play in Windows (OSX is much less optimized for 3D than Windows is). Of course, it can't compare to many PC laptops, but it still does decently

Are you people stupid? Say what you want about the new Macbook Pro, but it isn't overpriced.

Find me a laptop with comparable specs that is less significantly than that (thinness and build quality included). Apple did some pretty cool stuff to cram everything in there.

Gaming on a Mac:lol:

Its to sad that none of apples devices are powerful enough to run any game that looks worth a crap at the retnia displays max resolutions.

Are you people stupid? Say what you want about the new Macbook Pro, but it isn't overpriced.

Find me a laptop with comparable specs that is less significantly than that (thinness and build quality included). Apple did some pretty cool stuff to cram everything in there.

thelastguy

Are you stupid? or just an apple zombie? You could buy a laptop that blows the pants off that for about $500 to $700 dollars less.

[QUOTE="thelastguy"]

Are you people stupid? Say what you want about the new Macbook Pro, but it isn't overpriced.

Find me a laptop with comparable specs that is less significantly than that (thinness and build quality included). Apple did some pretty cool stuff to cram everything in there.

AM-Gamer

Are you stupid? or just an apple zombie? You could buy a laptop that blows the pants off that for about $500 to $700 dollars less.

thing is though heres the kicker, macbook pro's aint really gaming devices to begin with.

You'll find its mostly people in media industries that will opt for them especially the music industry macs are more a standard bit of kit in studios these days.