games are a niche market in itself. If there were hundreds of millions of users that cared about PC Gaming Apple would care. If Apple’s research determines there are enough people to move the needle in sales, they would do it. I also believe they are looking to the AR and MR they are working on to bring an industry shifting product to market. Think about using an Apple Watch with a controller in the other hand along with Apple glasses to bring titles to life without huge devices on you head.
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games are a niche market in itself. If there were hundreds of millions of users that cared about PC Gaming Apple would care. If Apple’s research determines there are enough people to move the needle in sales, they would do it. I also believe they are looking to the AR and MR they are working on to bring an industry shifting product to market. Think about using an Apple Watch with a controller in the other hand along with Apple glasses to bring titles to life without huge devices on you head.
Pointless; every GPU in every mac is outdated trash that cant handle a steady framerate especially now that basically every mac comes with a high resolution display. Im not going to mention the Mac Pros because they're a major rip-off.
Yes. The newest Intel Iris Xe performs well. There are loads of games you can play on it. Not at the highest detail or resolutions and not the newest titles, maybe, but many games aren't that graphics intensive. This being said, anything that the Xe can run, the M1 would be able to run as well or better if the game is available for macOS and Windows.
What neither Intel's Xe nor Apple's M1 can compete with are dedicated higher-end GPUs from AMD and NVIDIA. Of course, the M1 isn't meant to compete with dedicated cards. It's meant to compete with other integrated solutions. It does that very well. We'll see if Apple ever releases a product that is meant to compete with AMD and NVIDIA from a gaming standpoint (and not just a computation standpoint).
Right? I love my iPhone and iPad and Mac, and I am happily in the ecosystem. But I’m also a gamer, so I have a separate PC for that.
I think the devices only being first gen and the more powerful versions with access to more memory have not even been released is the reason. Also, keep in mind these companies are terrified of what’s coming. They may know Apple is working on Gaming in a big way and they are trying to get out in front of it to control the narrative before next week.
Question is: Will there be a M1X version of that game. If not, then the old Intel-platform and bootcamp or a simple, cheap Intel thing will be the better solution.
I am not really into gaming and actually testing a maxed out M1 MacMini, looking at possible future opportunities I will get, using this platform - versus my "old" Trashcan.
... no I did not get the M1 for free at all.
Do you mean than your current PC? Because a PC with the new 3000 series Nvidia cards look beautiful on an OLED and can offer a better experience, though at 3x the cost
Enjoy that series x, amazing with Game Pass!I see a lot of so what. We know this. Of course you don’t buy a Mac for gaming. I’m good with Xbox or ps5.
But not much demand for apple to make it better. Where as with iPads you guys are wait til wwdc. Or if wwdc disappoints I’m returning this 2k iPad.
But not much demand for apple to make it better. Where as with iPads you guys are wait til wwdc. Or if wwdc disappoints I’m returning this 2k iPad.
LOL, wrong. The entire gaming industry (PC, mobile, console, etc) is worth about 300 billion dollars a year.
PC industry generates about 35 billion dollars a year. That's without Apple's presence in the market.
You need to get informed.
I remember when the Mac in the days of yore actually got ports of PC titles at around the same time as PC releases. Quake, UT99, Carmageddon, etc.
I'll never forget seeing Quake running on a PowerMac at Fry's (rip) and wanting it so bad but all I had was an LCII.
The Mac market is sizable but with the older depreciated OpenGL, switch to Metal, and bad hardware choices on Apple's part, I don't blame devs for not wanting to touch gaming on modern Macs.
Guess I'll stick to SimCity 2000.
I'll never forget seeing Quake running on a PowerMac at Fry's (rip) and wanting it so bad but all I had was an LCII.
The Mac market is sizable but with the older depreciated OpenGL, switch to Metal, and bad hardware choices on Apple's part, I don't blame devs for not wanting to touch gaming on modern Macs.
Guess I'll stick to SimCity 2000.
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This has been largely true ever since I can remember and will probably remain true for as long as I can imagine. Certainly for as long as PCs hold the greater market share. But it's kind of moot since a sizeable majority of Mac users buy Macs because they feel they're better at pretty much everything else besides gaming.
Plus, macOS is for work and coding, while PCs are only good for games. I switched to a Mac and I don’t regret it one single bit- take that intel!
The look and feel of intel marketing material hasn’t changed much since the Apple G3 vs Pentium toast campaign. Are they still using PowerPoint 98?
There was a report in 2020 that 48% of PC users worldwide play games, is that really a niche marketplace? One could say the same about how many people do almost anything popular worldwide.
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1440p 165hz powerful and quiet gaming laptops with excellent colors have basically made me fall out of love with the Mac. It just wasn’t like that back in 2010. Gaming laptops have came a long way. The majority of great laptops lately have been Ryzen-based though…
Windows is also much better for coding than it used to be with WSL and there’s nothing you can’t do except code for iOS
Windows is also much better for coding than it used to be with WSL and there’s nothing you can’t do except code for iOS
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It is kind of of bizarre that Intel made this attack on Macs, when - in the gaming sector - AMD's Ryzen CPUs are the bigger threat right now.
Intel is scared to the bones as ARM progression is rocketed
I’m just wondering how much room for improvements there are in ARM when manufacturing size couldnt go further as now is the one key element of its success...
I’m just wondering how much room for improvements there are in ARM when manufacturing size couldnt go further as now is the one key element of its success...