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I just ran Fire Strike on my 2013 MacBook Pro.

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I got a score of 611. I'm genuinely surprised it didn't go up in flames during the test. I got around 2 FPS most of the time during the benchmark and about 15 FPS during the Physics Test.

 

TL:DR: Don't buy a Mac, Buy a PC instead

 

^EDIT: My stupidity is obviously showing again.....

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You know that most ultrabooks have integrated graphics, you shouldn't buy a ultrabook/very thin laptop for gaming....

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Trying to run games on a mac is like trying to render 16K images on a gtx 250...

 

Each has their purpose. I love my macbook at work, but when I get home I never ever use it

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Ohh also a Mac is a personal computer....

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TL:DR: Don't buy a Mac, buy a PC instead.

 

What? this is the dumbest thing I have ever heard ><

 

Also you realise that the 15" retina pro has a pretty ok mid range GPU inside

 

 

A PC without a dedicated GPU would also get a low score... so it has nothing to do with the fact its a Mac

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A PC without a dedicated GPU would also get a low score... so it has nothing to do with the fact its a Mac

Yeah but at least it won't smash your bank account as well.

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Yeah but at least it won't smash your bank account as well.

 

That's true, but it will also have greatly inferior build quality, probably won't have a PCIe SSD, won't run OSX (one of the main reasons I personally bought a MacBook Pro), likely inferior customer support, won't have the frankly quite brilliant OSX trackpad, won't have a 1600/1800p screen.

There's a huge long list of good reasons to spend the extra money on a Mac. Specs are not everything.

I realise it's entirely subjective preference, but the old "I could get better specs for the same money" argument is completely lacking any kind of nuance. It ignores a whole range of factors, and many factors that may be important to you are not to others, and vice versa.

Not having a go at you specifically, just this general sentiment that I see far, far too often.

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Not having a go at you specifically, just this general sentiment that I see far, far too often.

 

Agreed and well said

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Not having a go at you specifically, just this general sentiment that I see far, far too often.

 

Same can be said for both sides of the argument to be honest. Anyway that's me don't want to res an old thread.

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Iris 5100 is still decent.

 

Surprised your Macbook didn't melt itself.

The Macbook pros have better cooling than the Macbook

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Barely.

Enough to stop it from throttling.

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so you got a low score on a laptop that isn't meant for gaming? and now you think it was stupid to get a mbp?

people don't buy macs for gaming, wtf.

 

even if macs are expensive, they have some good parts to it.   they look super good compared to windows laptops, and the os is super simple.

i use my mbp for school and when i game i use my pc

There is no such thing as a bad PC, there are only BETTER PCs

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I do not agree with the whole argument about how a pc priced the same won't get pcie based storage, etc.

 

If you want to go full flash storage, you can throw a 512gb samsung 850 pro m.2 drive on a z170 board with 32gb ram, i7-6700k, gtx 970, n200 case, power supply and fill it full of fans for $1500.

 

Closest thing to these specifications and possible performance would be a mac pro @ over 2000 dollars.

To be fair though, macs are for professional's work. Professionals use macs for photo, video editing, indesign, anything adobe or design related. However, if mac people would switch to windows I think they would save a lot of money.

 

 

The whole thing with believing that macs actually somehow have BETTER build quality and warranties, etc is bull as well because if you take a mac that crashed to the apple store you're looking at $500 if you cant do it yourself. With building your own PC, you know what you put in there. You know what failed. You know what to take care of. This is what scares many people off from building a PC. Many people think it's too complicated, time consuming, etc and just want to turn a pc on.

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