Football Manager Question

[Malcy16]

Hello,
Bit of a niche topic!

I've got a 2020 13 inch MacBook Air which I'll be replacing in the coming months. (1.1 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i3, 8gb of RAM)
I'm considering the Macbook Pro or the new 15 inch MacBook air.

I know that when I run the game 'football manager' on my current Macbook it will struggle with the workload and the fans will work hard as well as the system getting warm. I have similar problems when I run Photoshop or iMovie.

Does anyone think the 15 inch MacBook Air would be fine doing this or should I spend extra on the Macbook Pro?

 

[Tdude96]

I'm not familiar with the game, so don't know how intensive it is or if it's compatible with Apple Silicon, but I got a 13" M2 MBA 8/10/24/1TB so I could play an MMO while traveling, and my experience with that has been great.

Even after throttling eventually kicks in as it warms up, I get superior FPS compared to my 2017 27" i5 base model iMac. I've played for an hour or two at a time without any issues or the machine feeling uncomfortably hot. It does throttle a little after awhile, but still beats the iMac in FPS.

I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable doing that to the machine for hours at a time every day of its life, but for my use case it does beautifully. I imagine the 15" would do better, simply because there's more surface area.

If the idea of passive cooling and light throttling bothers you a lot, or if you plan to use the machine heavily for gaming, a MacBook Pro with active cooling would probably be the better idea. Otherwise, I think the 15" Air will do well.

 

[Malcy16]

Thanks for taking the time out to reply.
Understand its a bit of a niche question.

My Macbook Air struggles - Just this morning I had a team meeting which I tried to access via the web rather than the App. It was taking a while to load so then I went on the app store to download the teams app and I got the spinning wheel for a while.
Then the fans starting working hard during the call.

Surely this sort of thing shouldn't be too much of a burden for my Macbook Air but seems like it struggles..

 

[ascender]

I can check this for you tonight.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

I'm occasionally playing Football Manager 2023 Touch (which I prefer over the regular version) on a Macbook Air M1 with 16 GB RAM. No problems.

 

[ascender]

FM2022 works very well. No fans and the base only warms up slightly during a long session with a lot of matches.

Have attached a few screenshots.

 

[Malcy16]

Thanks to all those replying!

 

[ascender]

For reference, FM2022 on the MBP14" does get the fans going (albeit you can only barely hear them) and on a 16" no fans at all.