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Whats gaming like on these powerbooks?
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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Whats gaming like on these powerbooks?
Whether you have a 12, 15 or a 17inch model. How happy are you?
I know the 17inch screams but what about the other 2, some of you must have an idea, any good?
I personally only want to play 2 games, Warcraft 3 and Sim City 4 so if you have these then even better.
Mention the RAM configurations as well.
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I have a 15" Al Powerbook with 1Ghz G4 and 512mb ram which plays Warcraft 3 and Neverwinter Nights great at native resolution.
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My 12 plays NWKnights and warcraft very well.
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It's subjective, and games with lots of AI bots can be sluggish, but in general UT2k3 is supposed to run great on all the new PowerBooks. That's pretty demanding graphics. I haven't seen any FPS from actual play--1-on-1 to 4-on-4 human multiplay would interest me--just from a botmatch test which bogs down the CPU.
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no way.... i got a 12"PB and tried warcraft on it...... unless you maximize the ram... its gonna be slow.....
its never gonna be quick if you play games on laptop (may be exclude 17")
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Got a 12" Powerbook ^__^
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I just got a Rev. B 12" PB & put 768MB of RAM in it and tested 4 of the most popular 3D first person shooters for the Mac on it and posted my thoughts on it's performance, along w/ other opinions about the new 12" PB, HERE. 
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Originally posted by daniel999:
no way.... i got a 12"PB and tried warcraft on it...... unless you maximize the ram... its gonna be slow.....
its never gonna be quick if you play games on laptop (may be exclude 17")
Not true at all. I have a new 12" Powerbook with 768MB of RAM and Warcraft 3 runs extremely well on it.
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Warcraft 3 runs creat on the new 15 inch Powerbook, at 1280x854 (sadly it's distored though, it dosen't take into effect the aspect ratio).
I had a LAN party last weekend and let someone play tower defense on it while I played from my desktop. It never stuttered, even with a ton of creatures running around.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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My rev a powerbook runs warcraft without a hitch.
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iPod Mini Green | 35 gigs of music :-)
HP DV1040us Laptop | 1.6 Pentium M | 1GB RAM | Centrino
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