Black MacBook for gaming?

[jgw1283]

I just bought the black macbook 2gb ram model from MacMall since I didn't like the new MBs. Anyways, I'm wondering if I can play newer games on it smoothly? I'm interested in Command & Conquer 3 and some other RTS games. I'm coming from a 1.42ghz iBook so I'm jumping quite a bit spec-wise. thanks

 

[Eidorian]

You might be able to pull it off in Windows at Low or Very Low settings. You'd be better off just building/buying a cheap PC to play games.

 

[mklnz]

I wouldn't recommend it, I'm assuming it has the Intel X3100 chip? It can run Half Life 2 and CS: Source at about 30FPS with everything low but no it won't run any new games (or even old) "smoothly" unfortunately.

The new Macbook with the Geforce 9400M is _much_ better in terms of gaming.

 

[jgw1283]

so even if I upgrade to 4gb of RAM it wont help?

thats pretty depressing considering the specs for C&C 3 are well below my new computer lol

 

[Eidorian]

so even if I upgrade to 4gb of RAM it wont help?

thats pretty depressing considering the specs for C&C 3 are well below my new computer lol

Adding more RAM isn't going to improve the GMA X3100.

 

[timestoby]

you might not have liket the new macbooks,but the nvidia intergrated would have played them games easy,but not the x3100,if the nvidia is 5 times faster than intels newest x4500 and the x4500 is 3 or 5 times faster than x3100..lol