Hi,
im looking for a macbook pro just to play 1 game, football manager 2016, can anyone recommend the cheapest one? heres the system requirements from their website:
http://www.footballmanagerblog.org/2015/09/football-manager-2016-system.html
You really should learn to read system requirements. It's not rocket science. At all.
Since you want to be spoon fed the information, every single Mac laptop on the market at the moment apart from the retina Macbook can play that game easily.
The website you linked that already gave you all the information you need to know said:
- OS: Mac OS X 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10
- Processor: Intel Core 1.8GHz+
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVidia GeForce 7300 GT ATI Radeon X1600 Pro Intel GMA X3100 256MB VRAM OpenGL 2.0 compliant
- Hard Drive: 3 GB available space
OS: Any Mac you buy today will have the correct OS on it, that's a non-issue.
Processor: Any mac from the last 4 years or so has a "Core" processor from intel and meets this.
Memory: No mac that I'm aware of sold in the last 6-7 years has come with less RAM than 2GB, you're fine there.
Graphics: Those are all ANCIENT cards, if you'd googled a bit, you'd have found as much. You're good to go with any Mac.
Hard drive: Any mac will have plenty of space when bought new.
Like I said, it's not rocket science. Just compare what is required to what you have. Rule of thumb: bigger number is better.
Let's take a 13" retina MacBook Pro as an example. We'll go with the base model.
Processor: Says "Core" in the name, has a number of GHz bigger than 1.8. You're good.
Memory: Says it has 8GB, that is bigger than 2GB. Good to go.
Graphics: Here, google is your friend. The retina has an intel card. So let's compare apples to apples. Googling Intel GMA X3100 vs Intel Iris 6100 and reading around a bit would tell you the GMA X3100 came out back in '07. Any card made today (heck, the graphics card in my iPhone is better) beats it.
Hard drive: chances are you have plenty of free space left on a new computer, so that's a non-issue. You can also easily find out how much space you've got left.
