Better at producing noise , better at producing heat and better at producing salt for their fanatics as they cry abut losing the performance crown to a lifestyle company , reality is setting in that in every product segment Mac will compete in with AS from now on they will lose the power/perfromance crown , thin and light is gone , next are the workhorse laptops , the amount of PCMR folks coming over to the Mac forums to try and "pick a fight" is funny , the fact that Intel are doing the same is sad though , once , sure have at it , but to consistently put misleading commercials is terrible practice.
Hey, a fellow-by-proxy Factorio player! I can just watch my brother play that while we’ve got some debate or something on in the background and it’s a great time. There really is a fair library of good games on the Mac, people are just all about focusing on AAA games/whatever has the most players (usually those go hand-in-hand, with notable exceptions).
iOS devices, yes. macOS only as an easy “port” from the iOS version. I’m sure developers are looking at the recent trial, seeing how much money Fortnite was making on iOS and are wondering of the 20 million investment in their “LootBox Presenter” game for macOS would really make that, plus more, back.
Apple and I couldn’t careless about blowing things up in my a virtual world , more rather we prefer the creation of things music, art illustrations design and beautiful images.
If this were just a chip vs chip comparison, you would be correct,. However, since almost every Intel system has slots for an add on video card that only the $6K Mac Pro does, the correct product comparison would be say M1 iMac vs $1299 Alienware with an add on video card.
Thing is, if you look at the top 5 games on PC, it’s likely to mostly include titles that run just fine at 1080p, like GTA and Minecraft. Multi-thousand dollar gaming is a very, very small niche. I’ll check the top 10 and top 20 lists, but I’d imagine that the current Mac hardware is more than capable of handling those at a consumer level of fidelity. The problem always has been and will be the software. This is likely even more true now as Apple moves to M1 which few developers have experience with optimizing for. The only way this will change will be if Apple can somehow make it easy to port Windows DirectX based games to Apple Silicon GPU. If they make it dead easy, some larger developers may bite (especially if that game can also run on the iPad).
