MacBook Pro 13 or 16 - boot camp

[bulldoze]

The gaming performance of this might give me another option on a purchase. I was going to buy a 13” MB Pro to replace a stolen one but my son has also been badgering me to buy him a gaming pc. Maybe I should buy a 16” and then we could share it as a family computer?

+ We have no room for a gaming pc for him. But we already have a desk setup with 27 external monitor, keyboard

+ He does need a PC for school work stuff and shows an interest in Adobe graphic stuff but I realise that a big factor in his interest would be gaming.

+ I made a big mistake buying my previous MacBook with 8GB this gives me the opportunity to get a more powerful machine.

- is it a pain switching with boot camp? I have never used it.

- it’s a lot more money? But still much cheaper and less hassle I would have thought than a separate gaming pc.

What haven’t I thought of? any other factors?

 

[nbuubu]

Bootcamp is very easy to swap between. But the current drivers aren't in a good state, the trackpad is wonky (you have to enable tap to click in order to get a functional icon drag ability), and most games are broken with fullscreen only working in native res which is a hard performance hit.

I don't have a ton of faith in Apple to fix all these issues, but bootcampdrivers.com will hopefully have solutions eventually where Apple doesn't.

I like my MBP16 as a gaming device, as the gpu is capable, but it's by no means its primary function. It's gaming secondary for me while on the road.

Honestly, if I were you, I'd buy a MBP on a steep Black Friday discount, like the 13 inch MBP models you can find for $1500 everywhere, and then use the ~$900 difference in price between that and a base model 16 inch to buy a PS4 Pro and an Xbox One X and a Nintendo Switch, which I'm sure you could all get on Black Friday deals.