I am thinking of buying the top tier model with the GT750M.I am going to be doing video editing,and gaming in a 50:50 ratio.Will the MBP suffice for that?
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Is the Macbook Pro with Retina good for gaming?
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The 750M is a pretty outdated card by today's standards. Still, it can handle some light to medium gaming.
That said, I play BF4 at 1680x1050, mix of high and ultra, 16xAF and FXAA, and get around 47-50 fps on average, with the lowest being 35 fps and getting 60 fps in quite a number of situations.
Yes it will suffice, but it's not a gaming laptop so don't expect any kind of comfort. It gets very hot and very noisy. If you intend to game a lot and you're not on a tight budget, better build/get an equally powerful gaming PC and get a bit cheaper Macbook instead.)
It is basically just very bad value for the money. You can get twice the performance on similar Windows notebooks that already have 850M which Apple for some reason refuses to update to. Or 4 times the performance on a still cheaper gaming oriented notebook.
The 750M can play some games but for money you pay it is quite bad.
Desktop PC are always better simply because they don't get so noisy and loud and you can just upgrade the GPU after 2 years and basically match a $2000 notebook in performance released in 2 years for $200 of expense. If you have the space a desktop + a notebook is the best solution for the money.
The 750M can play some games but for money you pay it is quite bad.
Desktop PC are always better simply because they don't get so noisy and loud and you can just upgrade the GPU after 2 years and basically match a $2000 notebook in performance released in 2 years for $200 of expense. If you have the space a desktop + a notebook is the best solution for the money.
Just put Windows on it in a BC partition. I don't game but I do run X-Plane, the most demanding OpenGL sim app out there and the 15"rMBP will run it fine under Win 8 with a few sacrifices, but not unacceptable ones. Under OS X, forget it. If your app is OpenGL, the Nvidia drivers are FAR better in Windows. Does it compare to my 4790K/GTX 980 PC? LOL, not by a long shot, but it performs as well as my new Mac Pro for this sort of app. Actually, at some settings, the 750m is beating the hex with dual D500 in frame rates. YMMV.
It's very difficult to recommend buying a laptop with a price tag well over $2000 equipped with a two year old video card for gaming.
I dont think it is a smart choice, sorry. Specially considering other choices, which are cheaper and much more powerful. If you still want a rMBP for gaming I would wait a few more months until the update, then things may look differently.
I dont think it is a smart choice, sorry. Specially considering other choices, which are cheaper and much more powerful. If you still want a rMBP for gaming I would wait a few more months until the update, then things may look differently.