That's why I have 2 PCs, my gaming machine, and my ultra-portable macbook that will do a little gaming when out. Unless you really need the mac for some other purpose as well, you will get much better gaming performance for the money from a windows PC. The base M1 GPU is roughly equivalent to a 1050ti laptop gpu, not great but better than most onboard solutions.Īs for the point about what you get for the money though, spot on. I have the basic M1 macbook air and at native resolution (1440p roughly) it can handle WoW on medium with a playable framerate (about 40fps, not great but playable). You ain't running ANY video/game based application in 4k on a mac based system that isn't the full fat video editing beast, the best you could hope for is 1440p, don't forget that while the apple silicone is good for the job it does, it is worse than onboard graphics from Intel/AMD in terms of gaming performance, it's not made for gaming it's made for photo/video editing and tasks like that, while i can understand that blizz made the mac client to give those with a mac some way of playing WoW, realistically there shouldn't be a mac client at all for anything other than those with the basic hardware to run games, unless you need a mac for your job and are spending that kind of money on this (rather pathetic system imho for the cost), you would be better off buying a proper PC that can do both gaming and basic video/photo editing etc.The apple silicon is actually better than intel or AMD's onboard solutions, apart from maybe some of the higher end AMD models. Its a tiny box with inferior cooling design aand maybe a 65W power draw.

Most of us PC enthusiasts were genuinely surprised how well the original M1 performed with its wattage draw, but thermodynamics still exist. Its not some magic, but 40B transistors configured properly should at least provide an acceptable experience even at 4K.Īpple has nothing magic, but definitely impressive tech with their in house SoC. The Pro SKUs of SoCs are definitely more powerful than the M1, so if you're buying it for another reason and happen to want to play WoW with it, then you'll probably be fine at 4K.ĤK in WoW isn't hard to drive and Apple Silicon, especially the large Pro/Max series, are no slouch. ThanksMacs are still only useful for macOS specific production work and as basically the best laptops with the power efficiency of Apple silicon macbooks.

It doesnt have to be in Ultra settings, Good is good enough. Does anybody know or can make educated guess if the new Mac Mini M2 pro would play Dragonflight at 4k around 60fps?

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