Seeing how Apple has never advertised their Macs for gaming, I am not sure what Intel is trying to do here outside of grasping at straws.
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PCs Offer 'Better Gaming Experience Than 100% of Mac Laptops,' Intel Claims in Ongoing Anti-Apple Campaign
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Any serious gaming isn’t done on a Mac or any flavor of laptop. A windows desktop is still the best overall experience for gaming. A lot more peripheral support, hardware options, and a plethora of titles.
Mac buyers are not typically buying them for gaming. As far as Intel, doesn’t matter I buy AMD Ryzens.
Mac buyers are not typically buying them for gaming. As far as Intel, doesn’t matter I buy AMD Ryzens.
Where do you think AAPL has made 85%+ of ALL its Profit in the App Store ?
Honestly the fact that nearly half of the big-name games they want to bring up are on MacOS is incredible. Gaming on Mac has never been great and Apple's lack of a C-level executive who cares about that stuff has meant it has persisted in spite of Apple, not because of it.
Fortunately, I have an Xbox for those games.
Fortunately, I have an Xbox for those games.
I stay away from teenager infested multiplayer only games thank you. Again this may be an US thing? I play MMOs on european servers and the level of even random conversations seems to be much better. The one game that i tried that had global servers yes - the global chat was full of 13 year olds spewing low quality racist and homophobic slurs. But considering they were talking about being up at 4 am during my late morning... guess where they were from...
I was looking at another Mac site where they were discussing future market growth for various gaming platforms, and certainly Macs are not what Intel should be worried about, its actually consoles and mobile games. This is from Sony. So perhaps Intel should be focusing their misguided ads that direction. 
Apple actually blows Windows out of the water with gaming that matters, mobile. According to the Epic Trial the majority of revenue comes from games on the App Store. Apple made twice the revenue of the top 3 game consoles combined. It may be had to justify investing heavily into a minimal income stream.
Intel knows something big is coming next week. They are very afraid 😱
Intel knows something big is coming next week. They are very afraid 😱
Professional gaming is not selling even hundreds of millions of dollars in computers. I have seen various estimates for the total value, but very little of that is actual hardware sales, the place where Apple may eventually compete (once they have released the higher end Apple Silicon systems.
Sorry, it is much simpler than this. Apple had under 10% market share and porting to the platform is a major change. They have not demonstrated enough of a market to make it worth the investment for AAA titles. Once they ship higher end Apple Silicon systems, they may have competitive hardware and if they actually build a high end, gaming-focused, Apple TV, they might get people to port to that, which would make macOS ports much easier and more interesting.
Until then, it is simply a matter of market size.
Intel is right. Mac sucks at gaming LMAO. Only reason you even want one over a Windows PC is because of your workplace. Enjoy crappy x86 emulation and little to no games for MacOS. Bu bu but We GeT iOs PhOnE gAmEs NoW!!!
Heh. It’s kinda the opposite for me. Windows is for work and games. There’s no mac software hardly. Never has been. Vast majority of businesses have no use for macs. I saw macs mainly for artist, photographers, and video editing. It’s still mainly that which is apples idea of a pro user..lol. Reg consumers basically get macs to surf and do Facebook. Usually these were the nontechie users. We see more and more of these type users in the forums. They’ll spend 2-3k just to surf the web while crying about needing more ram or how the colors look.
I was able to make a Mac work for me at home with windows and parallels. Not happening with m1. Though I did get an m1 mini for the kids to do school work on. Great chip. Good computer if you don’t need niche pro apps like me or games. I’m talking real pro apps. Not the two “pro” apps that apple sells with every Mac.
Seriously Intel is grasping at straws, and their ads and claims don’t stand up.
one doesn’t buy a laptop or a dedicated workstation personal computer for gaming they buy a game console far superior due to the software and hardware heavily optimised for gaming with no background or large latency you’ll get with macOS , Windows NT or OSs based on the Linux kernel and those that do build x86 based PCs go with AMD CPUs due to it being more efficient in the gaming area and when serious computing is required like video editing M1… running macOS
one doesn’t buy a laptop or a dedicated workstation personal computer for gaming they buy a game console far superior due to the software and hardware heavily optimised for gaming with no background or large latency you’ll get with macOS , Windows NT or OSs based on the Linux kernel and those that do build x86 based PCs go with AMD CPUs due to it being more efficient in the gaming area and when serious computing is required like video editing M1… running macOS
Intel advertises PCs to consumers not to Apple. If Apple does not advertise Macs for gaming and Intel does not advertise PCs for gaming consumers may get wrong impressions that all computers are equally good for gaming.
No it doesn't. Maybe if ALL you want to play are Cyberpunk style games, yes. But there are many many MANY games that perform VERY well on macOS. I listed several. To say it "sucks" is like saying a "PS3 sucks or PS2 sucks". I still play very old games - actually prefer them to the games these days honestly.
Heck I can even play Descent via Dosbox on macOS - M1 Mac mini even and it surprised me.
If some consumers make the false assumption that all computers are equally good for gaming, that is their fault for assuming instead of doing research prior to purchase.
I really don't know what this "serious gamer" title keeps meaning. Am I not a serious gamer by spending hundreds and thousands of hours in WoW, Starcraft 2, Factorio, Stardew Valley, Terraria and more? ALL of which run very well on macOS?
I spend most of my time both on the job and off the job doing software development. But I also game. So if I am not doing software development, gaming is my only hobby. I think I am a pretty serious gamer when I spend hours every day gaming in to the night.
The truely serious gamer - "professional" ones don't even care about 4k or 8k. They will prefer 1080p for 240Hz vs higher quality display at 60Hz due to input lag when they play. And these people play games like Counter Strike that is very old, League of Legends which is on macOS too and those games.
Well, my Pro Apps largely run under Linux.
But I don’t go around saying that Macs or Windows PCs aren’t for pros.
Moral: YMMV
Btw, in spite of my work software being mostly Linux based, I still have both a Mac and a PC for personal use. Its possible to enjoy and appreciate the strengths of different platforms.
9/10 online players of games in the United States are foul-mothed poorly parented children.
