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I am at the store...help!
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Only a moron would spend 1700 on a Macbook to play SC2 in boot camp, buy a 500 pc laptop/pc for the gaming and get a Macbook air for everything else. 
PS. Don't get cheap and forget the $300 for Applecare.
PS. Don't get cheap and forget the $300 for Applecare.
My mid 2010 base model 13 plays SC2 perfectly. Never had a problem with it and I dont use bootcamp.
^This as you didn't specify your budget limit. but it would be easier to get a 500USD pc and getting an 11inch mba for the same prize as the top machine
Seconded.
The $400 difference is rather a lot to be "thrown away" if you know you'll never need that extra power. SC2 and bootcamp will run just fine on the 2010 model.
He is not being clear...he is referring to the Processor on the Graphics Card
which is the AMD Radeon HD 6490M on some models.
Only a moron would spend 1700 on a Macbook to play SC2 in boot camp, buy a 500 pc laptop/pc for the gaming and get a Macbook air for everything else.
PS. Don't get cheap and forget the $300 for Applecare.
u dont recomend applecare?
The bottleneck for most GPU isn't the amount of VRAM, the clock speed and number of shaders plays a much bigger role.
True of sorts but the engines are designed to work well with certain amounts of VRAM. If you use Windows 7 with 4 GB on an Intel Atom Notebook it will work well enough for some web surfing. Use a Core i7 with 512MB and you will end up with some choppy GUI.
It is the same for GPUs. With enough VRAM you can enable some details and get a 5% performance hit with only 256mb the same details settings cuts fps by 30%.
Current games expect to have more space to store textures and stuff today as any office GPU offers 512mb. Only Apple cuts VRAM so much and it won't matter in OSX because the Apps expect it in Windows new games expect more and get far greater performance hits from only 256mb than they would with a decent amount.
Just because some quite dumb people don't realize that a lot of detail settings are simply not available if you don't have the necessary VRAM doesn't mean it wouldn't work quite a bit better with more VRAM.