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WOW gaming on MBA 13"

sinser

sinser

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I still have a 2008 MBP, the one with NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512 MB. After 2 years of absence I'm playing a bit of WOW on it but the performance doesn't satisfy me anymore. How would a new MBA perform in comparison ? Better ? Worse ? Same ?
 
Surprisingly I just discovered that most of the performance loss on my aging MBP was due to the way display clamshell mode works in Mountain Lion. By playing with no external display or by disabling the MBP display with a magnet I got a good peformance improvement. I play with settings on low/fair and it runs at 40-45 fps on average on new Mist Of Panaria zones. Not something to report back home, but it's playable now.
 
sinser said:
Surprisingly I just discovered that most of the performance loss on my aging MBP was due to the way display clamshell mode works in Mountain Lion. By playing with no external display or by disabling the MBP display with a magnet I got a good peformance improvement. I play with settings on low/fair and it runs at 40-45 fps on average on new Mist Of Panaria zones. Not something to report back home, but it's playable now.
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well, that's good to know..

Clamshell mode reduces gaming performance
 
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