Intel mentioned 22% better performance over the previous generation.The HD5000 was pretty good over all ,but I was wondering how much better the HD6000 will be for light gaming?
I played the new SimCity on here before without much trouble. You can't jack all the graphics sliders all the way up, but it was much improved over the $250 Gateway notebook I had with a Celeron CPU and 2GB of RAM.
What about games like Hitman absolution, Batman Arkham games? Grand theft auto V is definitely out of the question as you need a quad core to run it.
I don't have anything like that on a computer. I've got an Xbox 360 and Wii U for most games.
I don't play much on my mac to be honest but there's 2 or 3 games I love to play on my mac if i'm bored and not at home on my xbox. Hitman and batman being 2 or 3 of them. Using a 15" mid 2012 rmbp at the moment but I need to downsize for work. I was gonna go for the new macbook but with the issues of there being only one port and not enough processing speed the air is looking good. If only it had a retina screen lol. That's it no more about it now I promise lol
I re-ran the Heaven 4.0 benchmarks. The 2014 11" i5/4/256 got FPS = 20.3, score = 510, min/max FPS 7.0/33.7.
The same configuration 2015 didn't do as much better as I had thought: FPS = 20.8, score = 525, min/max FPS 7.0/37.4.
Subjectively, even side by side, I didn't see a big difference.
Simply put its not a gaming machine.
Simply put its not a gaming machine.
Do you mean a gaming machine like a full-size ATX tower case with liquid cooling and SLI'ed, overclocked GPUs that needs 800W just to POST?
Because you're right, the ~3 lbs. ultrathin MacBook Air is not one of those computers. Well noticed.
No I mean like an Asus gaming laptop that can handle popular games.