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Sketchy Rumor Claims Apple Plans to Announce High-End Gaming MacBook or iMac at WWDC 2020
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I agree with this. While gaming takes a certain amount of hand eye coordination, there is no physical exertion. As with anything if you have that skill set and all you do is practice that skill set for hours a day, you’ll excel. That being said. They are not athletes noR professional athletes. I’m guessing Ninja couldn’t throw a ball much less catch one.
Total wasted potential. Shows how out of touch Apple is about gaming and continue to be.
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Some time around June we are going to have the next generation of GPUs released.
It's going to be interesting to see if this ends up being an actual gaming computer or not.
I would LOVE to have one which is good not only at video editing, but also at gaming. It will save me money.
It's going to be interesting to see if this ends up being an actual gaming computer or not.
I would LOVE to have one which is good not only at video editing, but also at gaming. It will save me money.
And for what I put in to my current gaming rig, to boot.
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Gaming is not a sport nor is poker. Gamers and card players are not athletes, period.
I might argue the exertion a bit though. Tanking will often make my right hand gripping my Logitech G600 tired.
The report cites a 'gaming laptop' or iMac type screen. For Intel performance gaming it sounds unlikely but what if Apple were making a 24" 4k iMac with a 120Hz Pro-motion refresh? Or a 14" MacBook Pro with a 120Hz Pro-motion screen? That would require a fairly beefy GPU without mentioning games.
Besides, when the article mentions eSports I don't immediately think of $5k Intel PCs which are upgraded regularly - I'm thinking lesser machines capable of running Fortnite or DOTA or similar. Not so called AAA gaming titles which need beefy Windows machines which get upgraded every 4-6 months.
And Windows has several years headstart on that sort of thing anyway.
So why not stick with the ARM hardware which is going into iPhones and iPads and prove whether or not that platform is capable of matching the PS5 and Xbox Series X for gaming performance next year?
All the 4k Pro has to do is bench similarly to the Sony/Microsoft machine, be able to run smoothly on a 4k 60Hz TV, and have enough RAM to be able to cope with 5 years of support from Apple's tvOS updates.
Console refresh schedules would favour Apple's way of working anyway - release the hardware and leave it as a static platform for 3-5 years so developers can work towards that (obviously with full support from tvOS software updates). Any in between upgrades can involve increased levels of NAND storage rather than having to change the hardware.
Doing fine with my Nintendo Switch and the odd iOS game... I don't know who the heck would be looking for this product...
They must of had the same dream I had. There's no way and no reason for Apple to produce a machine like that.
They'd have to find a really REALLY good reason to convince even a light gamer that the Mac platform is on par with or better than the dominant PC platform.
And up-to $5000 means they have to convince serious gamers that it's better to buy the Mac equivalent of a Alienware over a DIY system.
And that's just for the hardware.
We'd still need to see developers make games for the Mac platform.
They'd have to find a really REALLY good reason to convince even a light gamer that the Mac platform is on par with or better than the dominant PC platform.
And up-to $5000 means they have to convince serious gamers that it's better to buy the Mac equivalent of a Alienware over a DIY system.
And that's just for the hardware.
We'd still need to see developers make games for the Mac platform.
I think people have interpreted physical exertion to encompass mental exertion as well. I don't necessarily disagree with this because the brain is part of our physical being, right? Thus, things like chess and poker can be a sport as well.
I guess someone drank too much Christmas punch.
Apple has shown no interest at all in the past for hardcore/competitive gaming, and hardcore/competitive "gamers" have shown no interest at all in Apple (at least no positive one).
And yet, things like chess, curling, and shooting count as "sports"…
I agree, but I think the real line is drawn from the competition side of things, as opposed to the physical exertion.
If all it takes to make something a sport is any kind of physical exertion than posting the definition would go against the argument. Pushing buttons is physical. Just like moving a chess piece or pulling a trigger is too.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think "esports" should be in the Olympics, but at least they put the "E" in front to differentiate it from the sweat, blood, and tears that go into more traditional athletics.
you can't call yourself a mac gamer if you never played NETTREK on a mac classic using apple talk networking to play a lan game
It would be interesting to see an iMac with a full on gaming card integrated into it (from the standpoint of form factor changes).
The iMac Pro has slow individual CPU cores, so it's likely the worst for that. A regular iMac can play most games fine... if it's running Windows in Boot Camp.
Competitive gaming is a sport. Requires lots of hand-eye coordination and many hours of practice.
Darts is a sport.
You don't need that stuff though. The biggest reason gaming on Macs sucks is just the OS incompatibility. OpenGL is kept old, DirectX doesn't exist, and IIRC Vulkan is somehow handicapped. Like, CS:GO has noticeable input lag and framerate inconsistency in macOS on my desktop, but if I boot into Windows, it's perfect. Some games treat macOS as first-class and perform perfectly on it, but many are just ports.
If Apple goes for the gaming market, they'll have to start where Nvidia + Microsoft started together: Corner some game devs on their standards (Metal), and become the only real choice for playing certain games.
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There are not many choices now, as most of current GPUs could not handle 4K at 120Hz for gaming. Or Metal 3 provides a revolutionary method about increasing the performance...
Making the video game is an art, not playing it. The only way you can consider it a sport is if it's being playing competitively, not for fun. And then it's the lamest sport ever.
They'll never do that, and even if they did, gamers would still not choose Macs. The only way is for them to go their own way with Metal.