Is Macbook pro fast enough for online poker?

[zhaoxin]

There IS a special relationship between the MacBook and macOS but it is exactly the other way around. macOS is optimized to run well on the hardware that Apple chooses to put in the MacBook. The hardware itself? A 100% standardized package. 100% compatible with Windows, various Linux distributions and Unix derivatives including macOS.

A MacBook is just a PC, just like every other laptop on the market.

I don't know how you define a computer running well in a OS. Maybe my standards are different from yours. For me, a notebook runs well means:

1. performance: cpu, ram, disk i/o, network connection speed
2. comfort: keyboard, trackpad, screen, battery life, heat on c-side (keyboard side), fan noise

You point is correct on performance. As the hardware are standardized, there shouldn't be much differ, unless some extreme conditions, like overheating, happens.

You point is not correct if you consider comfort on "battery life, heat on c-side (keyboard side), fan noise". When you run Windows, MacBook air/pro always makes more fun noise, generates more heat and gets less of battery life, comparing to use the same MacBook air/pro in macOS.

You may argue that it is because macOS manages hardwares better than Windows. The comfort downside from macOS dues to Windows, not MacBook. However, from a buyer's point, he should consider if he could pay the same money or less, but still can get a alternative.

The answer is definitely yes. With the same money or even less, you can always find a better notebook with the same hardware performance and more comfort using Windows. Or saying, when running Windows, MacBook is not the one of best comfort.

That is my point.

I am not a Mac hater. I had 2 Mac mini(2011 and 2012), 1 Mac(iMac 5K 2014), 1 MacBook(MacBook Air 2013), 2 iPhones(iPhone 5 and iPhone 6s Plus, 2 iPads(iPad 2 and iPad mini 2). All of them were bought since 2012. Before that, I had been using Windows for 13 years. I am now a developer using Swift. I use Linux(on Server side, using remote control), Windows (on a separate PC, when I want to play games) and macOS (everyday use).

 

[2IS]

I don't know what you are thinking. I tend to think people makes mistake if he has never used a mac before. I helped a lot of people who use mac and windows. In my opinion, people are not doing well from using Windows to Mac, especially for someone who has no necessity to use a Mac.

Also, some people like to say you can use a Mac as a Windows PC because their hardware are the same. But in reality, it isn't. When MacBook runs in Windows, it generates more heat and the battery life is of shortage. That is because MacBook is never designed for Windows, all its hardware are designed to work with macOS.

You're just showing your ignorance here. Mac's use Intel processors and DDR memory just like Windows does. OSX might be more efficient, but the difference is marginal since Windows 8 and it has to do with the OS it self, not because of special hardware. You have no idea what you're talking about and clearly never ran Windows on a Mac.

 

[zhaoxin]

You're just showing your ignorance here. Mac's use Intel processors and DDR memory just like Windows does. OSX might be more efficient, but the difference is marginal since Windows 8 and it has to do with the OS it self, not because of special hardware. You have no idea what you're talking about and clearly never ran Windows on a Mac.

I think you should read the post above yours first. Giving people advice is giving him what is for his best, not what you had bought. There is nothing on your choice is wise or not here. Just does it fit him?

You prejudged me as ignorance, so what about you thinking of yourself?

 

[Freyqq]

Hi thanks for that information. But if you have windows on it, couldn't you also run mac as well? Thus you have 2 systems going on at once? For example let say all my poker programs are in the windows os. Now let say i dont want to play poker now and just want to web browse, download videos and other things like that. I could do this right? And if i do, that means all the programs i download while on mac isn't going to be on my desktop when logging into my windows one right? So if thats the case, couldn't i use windows only when playing online poker with those programs but when im not playing, log into mac?


The way you mentioned if i only run windows on mac, its waste of everything.

Yes, you can buy a copy of parallels and Windows and run Windows applications in OSX. However, performance will not be optimal as your computer is running two OS at the same time.

 

[2IS]

I think you should read the post above yours first. Giving people advice is giving him what is for his best, not what you had bought. There is nothing on your choice is wise or not here. Just does it fit him?

You prejudged me as ignorance, so what about you thinking of yourself?

I didn't pre judge you at all. I read everything you had to say and judged you after the fact. There's nothing "pre" about it. Nothing you've said so far gives me reason to judge any differently.