Question about Macbook pro retina?

[Curialover]

I am going to buy a macbook pro retina version
wanted to know this before
after installing Windows 7/8 on it using Fusion or boot camp
how much dedicated gaming Ram i get
will all the latest windows games work fine on it ?

 

[Stetrain]

Are you talking about the 15" version?

If you want to play games you will want to use Bootcamp, not VMware Fusion.

When you use Bootcamp and boot into Windows there is no virtualization or emulation. Windows can see the full amount of RAM the machine has installed as well as the full power of the NVidia graphics card and it's dedicated memory.

It should run basically all modern games, but probably not at the maximum settings. You may get better results by running games at lower resolutions than the maximum 2880x1800 of the retina MBP, like 1440x900, 1680x1050, or 1920x1200.


The 13" version doesn't have the NVidia graphics chip and won't perform nearly as well with games.

 

[Curialover]

Are you talking about the 15" version?

If you want to play games you will want to use Bootcamp, not VMware Fusion.

When you use Bootcamp and boot into Windows there is no virtualization or emulation. Windows can see the full amount of RAM the machine has installed as well as the full power of the NVidia graphics card and it's dedicated memory.

It should run basically all modern games, but probably not at the maximum settings. You may get better results by running games at lower resolutions than the maximum 2880x1800 of the retina MBP, like 1440x900, 1680x1050, or 1920x1200.


The 13" version doesn't have the NVidia graphics chip and won't perform nearly as well with games.

thanks
it comes with 1GB gaming ram
can we extend it by converting 16GB RAM into Gaming RAM ?
as some latest games require more then 1 GB gaming RAM

 

[Stetrain]

thanks
it comes with 1GB gaming ram
can we extend it by converting 16GB RAM into Gaming RAM ?
as some latest games require more then 1 GB gaming RAM

No, the system RAM and the video RAM are separate things on the logic board. How much video RAM a game needs can depend on the resolution you run the game at and how high you set the graphics settings.