[ParabolStellavento]

I'm still looking at macbooks with the gma950 card, my current card is I guess an NVIDIA Vanta thats like 16mb. I beleive the gma950 is 64mb, so would this improve my ability to play games? Really the most demanding games I wish to play are maybe Guild Wars or World of Warcraft, I don't need like great play, just moreso to be able to play those, I know I can't play GW on this computer, and I would assume I can't play WoW, so, will that graphics card be able to play, or at least run those games at an alright rate?

[Mac Write]

World of Warcraft is slow on a MacBook (I tried on my moms system). had to put all settings to bare min to make it kinda of playable. Unlike my MDD G4 which has all settings maxed (Radeon 9800Pro 256MB).

[centerchannel68]

For the 743,289 time, WOW will not run well on a macbook, because the macbook has crap graphics.

[Mac Write]

What am I going to do then. when I get my new MacBook (15"?) in May with GMA X3000 Integrated Graphics? Will that have a noticeable improvement in WoW performance, or will my 4-year old G4 be able to beat the living daylights out of the new MacBooks ?

[Peter]

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hi ero2.
I'm in org, level 58 priest alt -- I'm getting ~25FPS!
there is at least 10 characters on the screen -- no slow down when jumping off buildings, casting spells etc.
Overall, very impressive performance!
Running it on max res with med settings.

Running on 2ghz 2gb ram Macbook.

[highstakes]

WoW on Macbook runs alright if you are on the minimum settings, no addons AND not on a 40-man raid. On a C2D Macbook, my roomie averaged about 15 fps during a 20 man AQ raid.

[Peter]

about the same as mine, very playable really.

[alain_30_alain]

Hello,

The new MacBooks with Intel Core 2 Duo processors are very fast.
As you know, MacBooks have Intel GMA 950 graphic cards.
But you need to know that is a Graphic Media Accelerator, it accelerates your graphic capacities by sharing 64 MB with the rest of your memory (512 BM or 1GB) I recommend very strongly a minimum of 1GB if you want to play games on your MacBook.


If you need more power, I suggest you to get a MacBook Pro.
The processor is a bit faster, you have possibility to add more RAM (SDRAM DDR2) and you will benefit of a "REAL" graphic card.

The ATI X1600. Available in 128 MB or 256 MB.
I wonder if this card is shared with the main memory...

Glad to help you, I hope you enjoy.

Cheers.

[Mac Write]

The X1600 is not shared memory. it's dedicated 128MB/256MB video memory.

[alain_30_alain]

Originally Posted by Mac Write 

The X1600 is not shared memory. it's dedicated 128MB/256MB video memory.

I know, but its better than a GMA950.