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Barefeats - MacBook in Games and Core Image
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Irvine, CA
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Yeah. It is not a gamer machine at all. I will get one - as there is no way in hell I have an extra 1000$ for a MBP - but the ability to play WoW would have been nice.
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I thought people were playing WoW fine on their Minis. You can always run some of those games on lower settings anyway, they'd still be playable.
Just from messing around with a Macbook in store I could tell iPhoto was a lot faster than my G4 Mini, so not sure about their Core Image claims.
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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Originally Posted by monkeybrain
Just from messing around with a Macbook in store I could tell iPhoto was a lot faster than my G4 Mini, so not sure about their Core Image claims.
Most of iPhoto is CPU-based, so that's no surprise.
IIRC, their previous iMaginator tests isolated Core Image functionality to a large extent, and didn't stress the CPU so much. It'd be nice if they'd spell out exactly what they did this time around though.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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Originally Posted by stuffedmonkey
Yeah. It is not a gamer machine at all. I will get one - as there is no way in hell I have an extra 1000$ for a MBP - but the ability to play WoW would have been nice.
Anyone have experience with WoW on a MacBook? This is one of the only games I play now, and it plays fine on my 2nd gen. iMac G5 2GHz. I'd expect much worse on a MB, but would appreciate anyone's experience with framerates and settings to make it playable. Thx!
iBorg
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: New Haven, CT
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WoW is actually playable on the MacBook. It's not the prettiest thing in the world, and it gets rough in some spots, but it certainly outperforms its predecessor.
I'm seeing 20-30fps in most areas, averaging around 25. Bad spots in Ironforge are around 8fps. Not great at all, sure.
By comparison, the 1.33ghz 12" iBook averaged around 18fps in the same places, in IF it hovered at (ouch!) 4fps.
Don't go to Molten Core on it, is my advice. My iMac Core Duo gets around 45fps normally but drops to 20 in MC, so I wouldn't want to see what happens on the MacBook. But for casual play and soloing, it's fine.
Blizzard has also indicated that it anticipates substantially improved performance as Apple refines its Intel GMA950 drivers. The hardware performs better on WoW under Windows XP, evidently.
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