Dear APPLE, please make a MBP for gaming.

[johnnj]

Most of those games lack depth

Anyways, the current MBPs game extremely well
Just don't try to run everything on max

I agree that the existing machines are fine running games with conservative settings.

My point about the portable devices is that those are what Apple are hyping as gaming machines, at least they were, and they're not going in the direction of an Alienware in a metal case with an apple logo on the lid.

 

[Lennyvalentin]

Why would you want any Apple machine for high-end gaming? What a joke. Get a console or build a gaming PC.

Consoles or building a PC isn't much of an option if you want to game whilst staying portable...

Also, PC laptops are a total carpshoot when it comes to quality, and often suffer from driver issues where their mobile GPUs need special drivers that aren't being updated by the laptop manufacturers (because they don't want to support 700 different driver versions...and hell, they'd rather not support you at all when it comes down to it).

My dad bought a mid-range HP unit to replace his aging Dell desktop this past winter, it has a plastic chassis, one of those flimsy pop-out optical drives that feel like they're gonna fall off just by touching it, and both the touchpad and the wired networking need standalone drivers to function. They're not innately supported by the OS. Plus the screen has terrible contrast and color reproduction, angle it slightly wrong and you can barely see what's going on...

I'm a PC person myself when it comes to desktops, and I don't own a MBP (yet), but I'd never buy a PC laptop... Not in a million years. Apple units are generally speaking better built, have better keyboards and screens, use fully integrated and supported components, and you won't break off the charger plug from the circuit board either if you happen to step on the cord. Plus, they tend to look sleeker too, if that's anything to care about.

That said though, I wouldn't expect Apple to release a laptop built for gaming, ever... Considering their iOS devices represent the vast lion's share of company revenue and profits, and Apple's never really wanted to acknowledge that games even EXIST, I just can't see it happening...

 

[DustinT]

Dear APPLE: Please, for the love of the Mac, never, ever, ever make a MBP for gaming.

1) Not enough market for this product
2) All Gaming Laptops are ugly due to the cooling requirements. The MacBook Pro is far too sleek to fit an ugly load of gaming junk in it
3) Nobody will buy it just to run windows on it. Its a Mac, thus its meant for OS X. Not just as a standard PC. If you want one for that go ahead, but Apple should never devalue its OS by offering a machine meant to run Windows.

Ditto

 

[alust2013]

What about boot camp or vmware, dont they run windows(which means you can play pc games on a mac)

I'm aware of this, but that completely defeats the purpose of buying a Mac...

 

[NickZac]

Anyone ever see the Alienware laptops? Anyone ever pick one up? Anyone ever pull their back picking one up?

Well the back part is a little overkill, but I read the 17 inch Alienware system is now 12 pounds, which is LIGHTER than previous models

You practically need a hand truck and a fork lift to move that thing!

 

[Rhyalus]

Anyone ever see the Alienware laptops? Anyone ever pick one up? Anyone ever pull their back picking one up?

Well the back part is a little overkill, but I read the 17 inch Alienware system is now 12 pounds, which is LIGHTER than previous models

You practically need a hand truck and a fork lift to move that thing!

The big laptops are the ones with the desktop CPUs stuffed in them. Most of the ones I have seen with the 2nd gen mobile i7s are lighter. Not Mac lighter, but lighter....

~8lbs.

R

 

[Legion93]

Anyone ever see the Alienware laptops? Anyone ever pick one up? Anyone ever pull their back picking one up?

Well the back part is a little overkill, but I read the 17 inch Alienware system is now 12 pounds, which is LIGHTER than previous models

You practically need a hand truck and a fork lift to move that thing!

And with the performance you can control the alien mothership in space, just like Jeff Goldblum did in 'Independence Day'.

Besides, the computer he used to destroy a quarter size of the moon entire alien fleet in 60 seconds was running OS X cheetah :d

 

[NickZac]

And with the performance you can control the alien mothership in space, just like Jeff Goldblum did in 'Independence Day'.

Besides, the computer he used to destroy a quarter size of the moon entire alien fleet in 60 seconds was running OS X cheetah :d

"You would all be dead without my David"

 

[Macsavvytech]

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get alienware if you want portable gaming. good luck with crappy hinges and non-existent support though lol

Alienware are c**p for gaming. They have become consumer oriented since Dell bought them, they are over priced garbage. If you wanted a gaming computer get a good ASUS or Origin etc.

 

[maclaptop]

Dear Windows, please make a laptop worth buying

So that's what it's like to live a sheltered life

 

[MacMojo1]

I love my new MBP 2.2 and I also love my iPad 2, Sony PS3 and 360. Tools for different tasks IMO

 

[gman34]

a macbook pro is for almost high end video editing.
It plays counterstrike etc... well but right now, I could encode a Hidef movie at 13 fps while still using adobe after affects, itunes open and facebook open. All with no slow down and fans at 3000 to 4000 rpm.
all with a C2D 2.4 ghz...

My quad core pc 3.4 ghz would encode at 4 fps and makes the entire OS inoperable....



Somethings it does great. Gaming is def a weak point of apple, but I don't think they should change the macbook pro line. Maybe create a BTO option line and call it the macbook play or something... but a pro is a pro, movie editing and pic editing is the market. Not games.
Deal with it.

 

[BlingBling]

Not going to happen

Mac's are not as good a gaming platform as PC's and despite being to run windows, there's not a big market of guy's buying Macs to play games. Besides games just aren't as fun on tiny notebook when you can play em on a big desktop PC. Still hope they keep trying to add modest GPU's that they do put in Mac's so we can still play some games.

 

[Meetster]

gaming all new games with medium to high settings without issues on my MBP on Bootcamp

 

[mrsir2009]

You don't want it to look like this, do you?: http://howtobuycomputer.net/images/alienware_m17x.jpg

 

[Meetster]

You don't want it to look like this, do you?: http://howtobuycomputer.net/images/alienware_m17x.jpg

if it would have an apple logo, sleek aluminium case and half the weight.... why not

 

[mrsir2009]

if it would have an apple logo, sleek aluminium case and half the weight.... why not

...And lose the retarded off-centre trackpad.

 

[adrian1480]

Please make a Macbook Pro entirely for HIGH-QUALITY GAMING.


What would you guys in the forums want in a MBP MADE ENTIRELY FOR GAMING??

the only game I can't play at 1920x1200 @ 30-60fps with a mix of high/max settings *right now* is Crysis 2. The only game.

complaints seem a bit hollow.

...And lose the retarded off-centre trackpad.

it's centered with the space bar. AS IT SHOULD BE. if it weren't centered with the space bar, one of your palms would rest directly on it.

think about that for a moment. decide if you think that's a good idea or not.

 

[Krafty]

http://www.originpc.com/thebigo-features.asp

XBOX 360 CONSOLE BUILT IN? NEVER WILL I HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THE TWO?!


I ordered just placed an order for 3 of these, tbh.

 

[AppleScruff1]

Dear Windows, please make a laptop worth buying

Windows doesn't make computers. Windows is an operating system used by most manufacturers on the computers that they build.

 

[JasonH42]

Get a 2.2 or 2.3 with 6750m, overclock a little, and you already have a better gaming machine than an XBOX 360 or PS3.

 

[Legion93]

Windows doesn't make computers. Windows is an operating system used by most manufacturers on the computers that they build.

Exactly. They should. It's far more common and unfair to criticise a company who designs OS and manufactures the computers the same time.

 

[mrsir2009]

the only game I can't play at 1920x1200 @ 30-60fps with a mix of high/max settings *right now* is Crysis 2. The only game.

complaints seem a bit hollow.



it's centered with the space bar. AS IT SHOULD BE. if it weren't centered with the space bar, one of your palms would rest directly on it.

think about that for a moment. decide if you think that's a good idea or not.

1. How does the MacBook family have a centered trackpad then?

2. You shouldn't type with your hands resting on the computer anyway.

 

[ZombieZakk]

look at the size of gaming laptops alienwares/sagers/clevos/qosimo/asus they are all huge my alienware m15x is much larger and has horrid battery life i get maybe 45 mins if im lucky and not doing anything. gaming laptops do not function good as regular laptops except the alienware m11x as it gets good battery life.

id be happier if they made the imacs more capable of gaming but macbook pro's will never be they would have to be too thick and have fan vents where apple thinks that looks bad.

 

[nick9191]

About 10% of all games are played on PC. The rest is consoles.

5% of THAT 10% are probably played on Macs.

No one really cares.