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Anyone with the new Macbook tried any games yet?

Wow I'm so glad I found this forum. Just saved 400 dollars by checking out that link ajpprc posted. Thanks so much man.
How I saved 400 dollars?
Well was going to get the 2.4 ghz version but its not worth it for 1 frame more!. Im Just a light gammer looking to play some halflife 2 mods, starcraft 2 and diablo 3. Looks like the new macbook can do the job very well.
Cant wait to pick mine up from apple store this friday. Gonna be first time apple owner.
 
CaMSpoon said:
Wow I'm so glad I found this forum. Just saved 400 dollars by checking out that link ajpprc posted. Thanks so much man.
How I saved 400 dollars?
Well was going to get the 2.4 ghz version but its not worth it for 1 frame more!. Im Just a light gammer looking to play some halflife 2 mods, starcraft 2 and diablo 3. Looks like the new macbook can do the job very well.
Cant wait to pick mine up from apple store this friday. Gonna be first time apple owner.
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I agree, can't justify the 1600 tag when there are pc's that can be had with more goodies. I was going to buy a 2.0 model today but dang best buy sold out of them all and they refuse to put any on display and the apple store is 2 hours away both drections. bah.
 
Loaded up the Mac version of Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy this evening on my 2.0GHz Macbook. It ran flawlessly!

This Nvidia 9400 is very impressive for an integrated chip.
 
neiltc13 said:
Benchmarks from 3DMark 06 of some of the Macs I've had over the years:

Aluminium MacBook
2.0GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, nVidia GeForce 9400M
2183

iMac
2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, ATi Radeon X2600 XT 256MB
3853

Black MacBook
2.2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, Intel X3100
295

iMac
1.83GHz Core Duo, 1.5GB RAM, ATi Radeon X1600 128MB
1205
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Score higher than my Nividia 7600GS dedicated graphic card of my PC XD
 
CaMSpoon said:
Wow I'm so glad I found this forum. Just saved 400 dollars by checking out that link ajpprc posted. Thanks so much man.
How I saved 400 dollars?
Well was going to get the 2.4 ghz version but its not worth it for 1 frame more!. Im Just a light gammer looking to play some halflife 2 mods, starcraft 2 and diablo 3. Looks like the new macbook can do the job very well.
Cant wait to pick mine up from apple store this friday. Gonna be first time apple owner.
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No problem, I pretty much have the same reaction as you. When I do upgrade I'll be going for the $1299 version of the macbook as I don't care about the backlit keyboard and all the benchmarks I've seen show only a minor bump with the 2.4 ghz processor. I'll throw 4gb of RAM at the sucker and it should be able to handle all the games I want to play on it.
 
I played CS:S on my macbook and the avg fps was around 70, while for TF2 the fps goes from 40 - 25fps depending how many ppl are in one room and how many ppl are shooting.
 
pw1388 said:
I played CS:S on my macbook and the avg fps was around 70, while for TF2 the fps goes from 40 - 25fps depending how many ppl are in one room and how many ppl are shooting.
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That sounds ace! what were the settings for this?
 
wonza said:
That sounds ace! what were the settings for this?
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most of the setting was on High. It was default set to it. Also i change the resolution to match the native resolution. I was surprised when I was playing the games with such high fps. lol. The only thing is if your in the game and there is a lot of object u will notice a slight lag but that's only for TF2.
 
Call Of Duty 4 On Macbook Pro Frames Per Second Review!

Hello,

My name is Bryan I have recently been reading allot of post on Mac Rumors and noticed allot of questions on the New Aspyr Media COD4 OSX version I posted a screencast at this link:

http://imacedu.com/#software

This video demonstrates Game play of COD4 on OSX not BootCamp and the FPS that runs with settings given. Please email me if you have any questions or would like me to help in any way I can.
 
BryanSanDiego said:
Hello,

My name is Bryan I have recently been reading allot of post on Mac Rumors and noticed allot of questions on the New Aspyr Media COD4 OSX version I posted a screencast at this link:

http://imacedu.com/#software

This video demonstrates Game play of COD4 on OSX not BootCamp and the FPS that runs with settings given. Please email me if you have any questions or would like me to help in any way I can.
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I'm sure there are some people out there who will appreciate your video but this is a topic about gaming on MacBook, not MacBook Pro. There is a separate forum here for MacBook Pro posts.
 
I installed Vista 32 in bootcamp and played STALKER shadow of chernobil, it ran great at the standard settings, very smooth, graphics looked great. I am impressed with this little gem.
 
pw1388 thanks so much for those videos. Its very impressive the performance with this macbooks video card. Still planning to make the trip to mac store this friday and right now I'm looking at the new macbook 2.0ghz or refurbished macbook pro last gen which are pretty much same price. Hard choice but I guess which ever decision I make it wont be wrong.
 
is there a dramatic increase from my old ati x600 to my new 2.4 alubook?

ps maplestory works great :D
 
I am dling COD4 Demo right now. Ill make another video on the performance of that game with bootcamp vista.
 
those are all source engine games. All he would need to test is HL2:ep2 and all the other steam games would be faster then that.
 
Would anyone mind downloading the demo of "The Witcher"? I'm curious as to how it would run on the new alu macbook :)
 
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